Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS BELOW! Click on "Show More" A podcast about the history, strategy, and significance of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University and Jacobin Magazine. All clip, song, and quote references, as well as links to individual interview transcripts, at soundcloud.com/organizetheunorganized. Interview with Jeremy Brecher: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/organize-the-unorganized-congress-of-industrial-organizations-labor-history-unions Interview with David Brody: https://jacobin.com/2024/07/cio-afl-industrial-unions-history/ Interview with Robert Cherny: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/west-coast-class-struggle-history Interview with Dorothy Sue Cobble: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/cio-labor-movement-afl-cobble Interview with Lizabeth Cohen: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/congress-of-industrial-organizations-history-worker-organizing-unity-great-depression Interview with Peter Cole: https://jacobin.com/2024/08/ilwu-racism-dockworkers-san-francisco Interview with Melvyn Dubofsky: https://jacobin.com/2023/12/cio-committee-industrial-organization-mass-production-workers-us-labor-movement-afl Interview with Steve Fraser: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/cio-history-working-class-organizing-new-deal Interview with Rick Halpern: https://jacobin.com/2024/06/packinghouse-workers-organizing-committee-upwa-cio-history/ Interview with Nelson Lichtenstein: https://jacobin.com/2024/09/cio-worker-organizing-labor-history Interview with Erik Loomis: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/cio-sit-down-strikes-roosevelt-communists Interview with Ruth Milkman: https://jacobin.com/2024/08/unions-afl-cio-democracy-leadership Interview with Daniel Nelson: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/akron-rubber-workers-union-sit-down-strike-cio Interview with Bryan Palmer: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/1934-minneapolis-truckers-strike-cio-left-organizing Interview with Lisa Phillips: https://jacobin.com/2024/04/cio-union-density-mccarthyism-racism Interview with Ahmed White: https://jacobin.com/2024/04/cio-little-steel-strike-swoc Interview with James Young: https://jacobin.com/2024/05/united-electrical-workers-ue-union-cio-communists