On this week’s show, Kipp Dawson, a woman coal miner active in the women miners' movement of the 1970s, '80s and '90s, on women's empowerment and recent labor history. Kim comes to us from the Willamette Wake Up Labor Report, which airs on KMUZ in Salem, Oregon.
Then, the DC Labor Chorus on Billionaires in Space and, on this week’s Labor History in Two: industrial unionists hold a secret meeting in Chicago.
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This week's music: We Were There, Billionaires in Space and Nancy on the Med-Surge floor, all from the DC Labor Chorus’ 2021 Holiday Concert.
Organizing during historic crises
Coronavirus essential workers’ rights
Socialists, suffragettes and fear at work
COVID-19: An injury to one is the concern of all
The Great Postal Strike, Watergate and “Casey Jones, the Union Scab”
Neutron Jack, Joker and Parasite
Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote
African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
Striking Images: Labor on Screen and in the Streets
John Sayles on “Matewan,” “Yellow Earth” and more
Sisters, rebels and social justice in the Jim Crow South
Voices from the Lansing Auto Town Gallery
MLK: All Labor Has Dignity
UAW’s Punch Press strike daily
A very unusual strike
100 years of the ILO
Working-Class Christmas
Hidden in the Fields
Collective actions
Making the Woman Worker
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