PRX - Pieces for Format: Debut (not aired nationally)
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 23:33
British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 2
Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 2
Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She's farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she's now come down with chronic ob...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 2
Organized labor has reached a landmark agreement promising unfettered union rights to the 600,000 employees of Catholic health care facilities acro...
- Added: Jun 26, 2009
- Length: 04:21
There's good news for unions in their attempts to attract the young members they must have if they are to grow.
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
- Length: 02:42
Organized labor played a major role in Barack Obama's election and expects much in return.
- Added: Nov 06, 2008
- Length: 03:40
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 03:52
Despite the great importance of teachers, they are by far the most poorly paid of all professionals.
- Added: Apr 11, 2007
- Length: 03:36
- Added: Apr 07, 2007
- Length: 06:39
- Added: Apr 06, 2007
- Length: 06:08
Journey deep beneath the sea, and back in time, in the Tacoma Narrows
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Apr 04, 2007
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 1
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
Somali taxi drivers in Portland Maine sit with their frustrations, hopes, and memories.
Bought by WMPG
- Added: May 24, 2006
- Length: 06:44
- Purchases: 1
A conversation with Sister Margaret Rose Smyth, advocate and activist on behalf of the immigrant worker
- Added: Apr 12, 2006
- Length: 33:04
Minute Men on Our US-Washington State & BC Border Interviews
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 06:23
Although well in the minority, unionized workers do much better financially and otherwise than their non-union counterparts
- Added: Mar 15, 2006
- Length: 02:25
President Bush's appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are going all out to deny wolrkers their legal rights.
- Added: Feb 01, 2006
- Length: 03:07
Celebrations are being held this year to mark the anniversary of the grape strike led by Cesar Chavez that won worldwide support for California's l...
- Added: Oct 22, 2005
- Length: 03:42
Despite what the official histories say, Labor Day actually was first observed in San Francisco.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, WTJU, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Aug 17, 2005
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 4
A commentary on the 100th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the most influential and colorful organizations in U.S. history.
Bought by BSR Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2005
- Length: 09:36
- Purchases: 1
