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Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Immigration, Measles, and Precrastination
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: US Immigration Policy is Outdated. Here's a New Perspective. Topic 2: Measles Erases the Immune System's Memory. Topic 3: Precrastination ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 51:35
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Dumovich, Blues Player & Singer, and Gary Kanter, Song Writer and Singer
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mike and Gary
Mike and Gary continue their Songs of Progress featuring music that has impacted the lives of working people with songs and history of Utah Phillips.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:29
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 68
The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Lee Singer (1971)
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Working Tapes: Taxi Driver
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
In 1974, author and oral historian Studs Terkel published his seminal book "Working," a portrait of America based on 130 interviews. The raw record...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
The Working Tapes: Phone Operator
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Jockey
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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When he was first interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1971, jockey Eddie Arroyo had been racing for 6 years. He said it was the hardest and most dangero...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Gravedigger
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Car Hiker
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
Occupy: 5 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
La Guardia and Organized Labor: La Guardia Radio Programs
From: LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
Series: La Guardia Radio Series
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Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia received a great deal of praise from labor leaders for his support of organized labor in the private sector. While he ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:13
An Almost Perfect State
From: Traveling 219
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The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:12
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2012 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As 2013 approaches, we look at some of the important issues we've covered in 2012: from domestic workers struggling for respect, to the consequence...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Dolores Huerta
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Shift Work
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Peter Drucker
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Business Talent Group's Jody Greenstone Miller and then we hear a rare audio recording of Peter Drucker on the mobil...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
Sit Down, Punk!
From: Dick Meister
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Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:56
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2011 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A look back at some of the most important issues of 2011: Attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate ...

Bought by KHNS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Is That My Imagination?
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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The story of a mind on strike.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Si Se Puede
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
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An oral history account of the successful workers' sit-in at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago in December of 2008, the first Ameri...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 21:57
  • Purchases: 2
Active Voice Radio - Steve Early: Embedded With Organized Labor
From: Chris Goldstein
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Longtime journalist and union specialist Steve Early looks to the present and future of American unions

Bought by KSFR and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
Hog Butchers to the World
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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Studs Terkel reads excerpts from Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" in this history of African Americans in the packinghouse industry of Chicago.

Bought by WFHB, WORT, Spokane Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2008
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 12