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Plane Queer: Airline stewards gay?! Really?!? (A history)
From: Out in the Bay - Gay Radio from San Francisco
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Are most airline stewards gay? How did their legal battles with airlines advance gay rights and gender workplace equity? History professor Phil Tie...

  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:54
Cooked: Is Fast Food Feminism's Fault?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on Michael Pollan's new book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, and why...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Equal Time Minute -- Fair Pay
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the subject of equal pay for women.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Well Grounded
From: Adele Jackson-Gibson
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This is a profile piece on Pacific T. Giordano who is the manager of an odd family business: selling gravestones. This is about the journey that go...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
From the Jaws of Victory
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cesar Chavez
Professor Matt Garcia has written the most comprehensive history ever of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
1936 Chaplin's 'Modern Times' Debuts
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Factories closed; unions ignored; the Tramp asks, ‘What’s Next’? Chaplin previews a world beyond the factory and unionism where one’s identity is ...

Bought by WRPI, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 5
Roots: A Story of Farming and Steinbeck
From: Shizue RocheAdachi
Caption: Jeremy instructing the student farm interns on proper seeding technique in one of Yale Farm's plastic high tunnels, Credit: Elif Erez
Jeremy Oldfield is the current farm manager at Yale University's urban farm. After running away from the world of elite East Coast colleges for a ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:03
Big Ship Diary
From: Allison Swaim
Caption: Kyle, Sam, and Ed on deck during a loading operation in South Chicago
Narrative sound-rich documentary about life aboard a cargo ship on the Great Lakes, told from the perspective of Kyle, the newbie on board.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 11:57
Jazz Odyssey #279 - Labor Of Necessity - Hour 2
From: Chris Kuborn
Series: Jazz Odyssey
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We saw the "Official" end of Summer this week - Labor Day. I know it isn't really the end of Summer until the beginning of Fall but for those of u...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSUT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Odyssey #279 - Labor Of Necessity - Hour 1
From: Chris Kuborn
Series: Jazz Odyssey
Caption: Jazz ODC #279 - Hour 1
We saw the "Official" end of Summer this week - Labor Day. I know it isn't really the end of Summer until the beginning of Fall but for those of u...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSUT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Can Chicago Factory Occupiers Form a Co-op?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One Chicago factory became a flashpoint back in 2008, when workers occupied the floor for days in protest. Now, those same employees are trying to...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 07:48
Growing Pains at The World's Largest Co-op?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:43
Making it Our Business: Co-ops on the Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Fired:Tales of Jobs Gone Bad - Labor Day Special
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Most of us who earn a living have at one time or another been fired – let go, downsized, outsourced, canned.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WXXI, KUHF, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WYSO and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 24
Working - Labor Day Special
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Studs Terkel's classic look at working Americans, re-imagined as a musical.

Bought by KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUIS, KUNM, KZYX and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:28:59
  • Purchases: 13
Bluegrass Review #1236 Program for Sept 1-7, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We begin this show playing recent bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass takes a look at bluegrass music and social class, and the Gem sets the tone for t...

Bought by WOUB, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM, KRZA, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1236 A New Look at Social Class and Bluegrass. For regular users, piece for Sept 1-7, 2012. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
The Conversation - Three - Peter Warren
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Conversation
Caption: Peter Warren, Credit: Eleanor Davis, www.doing-fine.com
The Malpai Borderlands Group is a coalition of ranchers and environmentalists who manage over 75,000 acres of grassland in Southeastern Arizona. Do...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 35:38
The United Auto Workers Union: Its Effect on America
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Bigger than Ever? May Day Protests in WA
From: Washington News Service
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Washington's labor, immigrant and faith communities are promising a large and vocal turnout on Tuesday (May 1) for annual May Day marches and ralli...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
Working
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Everyday working people tell their stories.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Nevada Public Radio, KUT, KKRN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Dream Jobs 2011: Outside The Cubicle
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
In Dream Jobs: Outside the Cubicle listeners will hear the stories of three very determined people who struggled to find the career path outside co...

Bought by KZYX, KFAI, WAMC, WCAI / WNAN, WNIN and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Helen Luksenburg: Survival in the Camps (First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors)
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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Helen Luksenburg discusses daily life, spiritual resistance and forced labor in Gleiwitz, a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:51
The Wisconsin Workers Uprising (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Was the occupation of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin a resurgence of organized labor in the United States, or the last gasp for unionized ...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Mindy S. Lubber on Working with Companies to Address Sustainability Challenges
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Even though U.S. public policies are often lagging behind, pressures from shareholders and investors, greater transparency, and heightened risk awa...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 29:42