On today’s show, auto worker Dorothy Stevens on her pioneering career at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI.
Also this week, Karen Nussbaum on Dolly Parton’s hit song, Bill Fletcher on the wildcat strike by the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement, and the Cool Things from the Meany Archives team digs into the AFL’s cornerstone.
Remembering John Sweeney and Anne Feeney
What’s the matter with labor history?
The People, No
Stand! The new hit labor musical
The Vancouver Island Coal Strike; Skyscraper Labor
Cutting along the Color Line
Cordwainers strike of 1805
The AFL-CIO turns 65
Paul Robeson and the 1948 Library of Congress cafeteria workers’ strike
America’s last general strike
Monopoly and Class Struggle: The games we play
Uprising of the 20,000
A journey down the Working River
Blue Wave? Labor and the Democratic Coalition in the Southwest
Organizing through the Divide
O Canada, organize!
One Day More
The Package King
Roediger on "The Sinking Middle Class"; Feurer on Mother Jones' legacy
“Despotism on Demand”
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