Shubert Sebree remembers Eugene Debs. Professor Laura McEnaney, author of Postwar: Waging Peace in Chicago, on the fate of labor's complex New Deal coalition and connecting the essential workers of the 1940s with those fighting today’s war against the pandemic.
Plus Joe Glazer and The Ballad of Eugene Victor Debs, and this week’s Labor History in 2:00: Workers Pay the Price for Bad Management
Produced by Chris Garlock; edited by Patrick Dixon. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
Thanks to Saul Schniderman for sharing the Shubert Sebree interview. Saul has a great newsletter called Friday’s Labor Folklore; you can subscribe here or email him at fridaysfolklore@gmail.com.
You’ll find more Labor History in 2:00 here.
Hamilton Nolan and “The Hammer”
Shift Happens
A labor walk in Wheeling
Throwing a working man's party
Blood in the Streets
The 1934 Minneapolis trucker’s strike
The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965
Smash Fascism
A farewell to BJR
The free trade myth
Trump’s actions speak louder
Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine (Encore)
A Supreme disaster for workers (Encore)
Wildcat in BC
“The Port of Missing Men” (Encore)
Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit
The People, No (Encore)
The house where Kate lived
Pride on the line (Encore)
The Memorial Day Massacre (Encore)
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