Rudolph the Union Reindeer

Broadcast on December 14, 2023
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant

This week's show: Kathleen Newman, a working-class studies scholar and professor at Carnegie Mellon, joins us to talk about work, capitalism, and the working class in holiday classics like Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer, A Christmas Carol and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

In our second segment, Part 2 of our interview with author Steven Silvia,
his new book is The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants.

PLUS: Remembering AFL founder Sam Gompers and civil rights activist Ella Baker, and the R.J. Phillips Band celebrates the lives of Joe Hill, Mother Jones and Bill Haywood.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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