Labor History Today

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Gripping stories of the historic battles for worker rights and how they fuel today’s struggles. Part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network: #LaborRadioPod

Episode Date
Justice Denied: Ben Shahn and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (Encore)
Oct 19, 2025
The Donora Death Fog
Oct 12, 2025
Remembering Mary Kenney O’Sullivan (Encore)
Oct 05, 2025
Red Bandanas and Solidarity
Sep 28, 2025
Cecil Roberts: “ You must continue to fight”
Sep 21, 2025
Unmasking Anti-union Antisemitism
Sep 14, 2025
Trouble! at Coal Creek
Sep 07, 2025
Patriotism, Paranoia, and Labor on Trial
Aug 31, 2025
Resisting Trump’s Rewrite: Black Slave Labor’s Secret Strategies
Aug 24, 2025
How We Get Free: Worker Solidarity in Racine
Aug 17, 2025
Hard Hats, Grapes, and Garbage
Aug 10, 2025
The Worthy Wages Movement for Childcare Workers
Aug 03, 2025
If Wages Aren’t Increasing, How Do We Expect This to Work?
Jul 29, 2025
The Raging Erie: Life, Labor, and the Canal That Changed America
Jul 27, 2025
Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (Encore)
Jul 20, 2025
Houston, We Have a Labor Dispute (Encore)
Jul 13, 2025
A Weekend With Pete Seeger
Jul 05, 2025
The Battle of Ballantyne Pier
Jun 30, 2025
We Rise Fighting: Strikes, Struggle, and Strategy
Jun 22, 2025
Tony Mazzocchi, Cowboy Strikes, and the Power of Solidarity
Jun 15, 2025
Songs of the Line and Stall
Jun 09, 2025
The Conductorettes
Jun 01, 2025
Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property (Encore)
May 26, 2025
Emma Tenayuca and the Strike that Shook San Antonio
May 19, 2025
From PATCO to Trump: Lessons from Labor’s Past for Today’s Fight
May 11, 2025
Broken Heads and Unbroken Spirits: 40 Years After the British Miners’ Strike
May 04, 2025
50 years of “Strike!” (Encore)
Apr 27, 2025
Union Made: The DC Labor FilmFest Preview
Apr 20, 2025
Para Power
Apr 13, 2025
A Chance to Harmonize
Apr 06, 2025
Taking a Stand: Union Solidarity Against Apartheid
Mar 30, 2025
Sam Walton, Harry Bridges & The Great Cowboy Strike (Encore)
Mar 23, 2025
The St. Mary Nurses Strike of 2020
Mar 16, 2025
Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia
Mar 09, 2025
Derry’s Missing Factory Girls
Mar 02, 2025
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Feb 23, 2025
Black labor in Richmond (Encore)
Feb 16, 2025
Grit and Working-Class Solidarity
Feb 09, 2025
The 1917 “Bath Riots”
Feb 02, 2025
MLK in Memphis
Jan 26, 2025
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting Columbine
Jan 19, 2025
Battle of the Eureka Stockade
Jan 12, 2025
At Sword’s Point
Jan 05, 2025
Christmas in Mansfield
Dec 29, 2024
The 1997 UPS Strike
Dec 23, 2024
Touring the American Labor Museum
Dec 15, 2024
Ybor City, Crucible of the Latina South
Dec 08, 2024
A tale of two Detroit murals
Dec 01, 2024
The lost labor artist
Nov 24, 2024
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion
Nov 17, 2024
Together We Can Move Mountains
Nov 10, 2024
A Wild Woman Sings the Blues
Nov 03, 2024
Remembering the West Virginia Mine Wars
Oct 28, 2024
“The Union’s Inspiration”
Oct 20, 2024
Bill Pancoast’s Road to Matewan
Oct 13, 2024
What Can We Learn From the Great Depression?
Oct 06, 2024
Bill Lucy on Black power
Sep 29, 2024
The Disney Revolt (Encore)
Sep 22, 2024
Hamilton Nolan and “The Hammer”
Sep 15, 2024
Shift Happens
Sep 08, 2024
A labor walk in Wheeling
Sep 02, 2024
Throwing a working man's party
Aug 25, 2024
Blood in the Streets
Aug 18, 2024
The 1934 Minneapolis trucker’s strike
Aug 11, 2024
The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965
Aug 04, 2024
Smash Fascism
Jul 28, 2024
A farewell to BJR
Jul 25, 2024
The free trade myth
Jul 24, 2024
Trump’s actions speak louder
Jul 23, 2024
Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine (Encore)
Jul 21, 2024
A Supreme disaster for workers (Encore)
Jul 15, 2024
Wildcat in BC
Jul 07, 2024
“The Port of Missing Men” (Encore)
Jun 30, 2024
Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit
Jun 23, 2024
The People, No (Encore)
Jun 16, 2024
The house where Kate lived
Jun 09, 2024
Pride on the line (Encore)
Jun 02, 2024
The Memorial Day Massacre (Encore)
May 26, 2024
“The Black Wobbly” gets a mural
May 20, 2024
The 1938 Crisfield Crab Pickers Strike
May 12, 2024
“I'm taking pictures of the history of today”
May 05, 2024
“UAW’s Southern Gamble” pays off
Apr 28, 2024
The Return of John Brown
Apr 21, 2024
The ’34 Toledo Auto-Lite strike
Apr 14, 2024
Trumka remembers Pittston
Apr 07, 2024
Connecting the ACLU, NRA and IWW
Mar 31, 2024
“Changing Lives, Changing L.A.”
Mar 24, 2024
B.C.’s Tough and Fearless Truck-Driving Woman
Mar 17, 2024
The 2024 Labor Oscar winners!
Mar 10, 2024
When Mother Jones teamed up with a U.S. Senator to battle West Virginia feudalism
Mar 08, 2024
We Were There
Mar 03, 2024
Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (Encore)
Feb 25, 2024
Mingo, Matewan and the Coal Wars of West Virginia
Feb 18, 2024
The myth of “highly paid” Alabama auto workers
Feb 13, 2024
Art Shields: The People’s Scribe
Feb 11, 2024
Saving "the Diego Rivera of Pittsburgh"
Feb 04, 2024
The lost Matchgirl Strike leader
Jan 28, 2024
MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961 (Encore)
Jan 21, 2024
Woody’s resolutions
Jan 14, 2024
”Please Buy My Last Paper, I Want to Go Home”
Jan 07, 2024