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Satnam Virdee on "Race, Class and the Politics of Solidarity" (full interview)

Professor Satnam Virdee. Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow, summarizes his keynote speech on September 4 on "Race, Class and the Politics of Solidarity" at the 2019 Working-Class Studies Association conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury UK. Interviewed by Union City Radio's Chris Garlock.

Studying the working class

At the Working-Class Studies Association conference. Today’s labor history: the longest strike in U.S. history. Today’s labor quote by John Lennon.

Linkon, Sherry

Linkon, Sherry by Union City Radio

Workers still want unions, despite attacks by bosses

EPI says labor law reform needed to restore and protect workers’ rights. Today’s labor history: 25 workers die in fire at Imperial Poultry. Today’s labor quote by Lightnin' Hopkins.

2019 WPFW Labor Day Show: Mapping American social movements online (11am-12pm)

Professor Jim Gregory: Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century Joe McCartin, professor of history at Georgetown University and executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Co-founder of the Labor History Today podcast.

2019 WPFW Labor Day Show: How to tip; labor Down Under; Ghost Workers (10-11am)

John Boardman: UNITE HERE Local 25: How to tip in America quiz Vanessa Seagrove: (in-studio); Assistant Secretary of Unions, New South Wales, Australia Mary Gray: co-author, “Ghost Work: How to stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass”

2019 WPFW Labor Day Show: Labor Radio/Podcast Network Roundtable (9-10am)

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM on September 2, 2019, 8-9am Judy Ancel: Heartland Labor Forum, Kansas City Chris LaGrange: UCOMM podcast, New York City Gene Lantz: Workers Beat, Dallas, Texas Rick Smith: Rick Smith Show, Pennsylvania Engineering & co-DJing by Chris Bangert-Drowns

2019 WPFW Labor Day Show: Labor music (8-9am)

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM on September 2, 2019, 8-9am Chris and Elise spin some of their favorite labor tunes from a variety of genres. Engineering & co-DJing by Chris Bangert-Drowns

Union approval and strikes way up on Labor Day 2019

Union approval rate highest in 50 years; nearly half a million struck in 2018. Today’s labor history: mineowners bomb West Virginia strikers by plane. Today’s labor quote by Richard Trumka.

Labor History Today (9/1/19): Who inspired The Rebel Girl? Labor Feminism in the Federated Press

On this week’s show: Who really inspired Joe Hill to write “The Rebel Girl?” We dig deep into this mystery and uncover some new heroes of the American labor movement. We also explore the lives and work of five pioneering female journalists in “Labor Feminism in the Federated Press” on the latest Tales from the Reuther Library podcast. Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Produced & engineered by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon.