The 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike is one of the three most important in U.S. history, yet it’s largely unknown; why?
Plus: CBTU president Terry Melvin on why the AFL-CIO’s Gompers Room was renamed the Solidarity Room.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: Debs goes to prison.
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Colorado’s lost strike song
Brecher’s “Strike!”
“The waterfront is my life”
Debs’ radio station
The union archive that almost didn’t make it
Coit Tower’s New Deal Murals
Who Killed Frank Little?
Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
The Port Chicago Mutiny (Encore)
The Disney Revolt
Under The Iron Heel
MoJo’s March of the Mill Children; Remembering Harry Belafonte
The 1943 RJ Reynolds Strike
Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot!
Democracy Under Siege
A white-collar strike
Detroit’s Walk to Freedom
Trumka on the power of labor arts
The Memorial Day Massacre
Mackay, Wurf, library workers, Matewan and the first baseball strike (Encore)
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