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Womenfolk - Labor Day Special

From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio

Labor Day Special

Added: Sep 03, 2023
Length: 01:58:03

Starting over: Resettling in the U.S and the after-effects of migration

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Concepción Caballero Antonio at her workplace., Credit: Leila Day

Since 1989, San Francisco has been a sanctuary city -- a place that offers undocumented migrants a chance to start a new life, without the threat o...

Added: Jun 03, 2016
Length: 11:40

Top of Mind - 2020 Labor Day Special Episode

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

We're marking Labor Day with a special episode about a group of women in Appalachia who defied stereotypes to get better living conditions for thei...

Bought by WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUHF, and KOWS

Added: Aug 24, 2020
Length: 54:25
Purchases: 4

Supporting Women in Labor (The workplace, that is)

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever

What would the American labor force look like if not for the contributions of women? The short answer: It would be a shell of itself, says Jones-De...

Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Aug 30, 2013
Length: 01:45
Purchases: 2

Underground Trade Part 7: Modern Day Slavery in America

From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok

Caption: Chinatown, Manhattan, Credit: Meredith Nierman, WGBH

If you think slavery ended in 1865, think again. Human traffickers have picked up where Jim Crow left off.

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI

Added: May 20, 2013
Length: 07:53
Purchases: 5

Day Job 5: Fear And The Flying Trapeze

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)

Caption: A trapeze student, Credit: Joshua McNichols

Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW

Added: May 20, 2014
Length: 16:18
Purchases: 3

Women and the Elections: What's at Stake II?

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

Second of five broadcasts on what's at stake for women in the upcoming elections. Today's topic: the minimum wage.

Added: Oct 09, 2014
Length: 02:30

I Can't Get To You: A Birth Story

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

This is a story for my son, whose birth was supposed to be completely normal. It was anything but. And then they separated us. (Produced for the KC...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Aug 31, 2016
Length: 04:04
Purchases: 1

The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

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

Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup

In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM

Added: May 05, 2009
Length: 59:25
Purchases: 2

7. Kym Tuvim. Your piano teacher has a secret talent.

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)

Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

Added: Aug 21, 2008
Length: 04:10

Freed, Lynn — Reflections on a Life

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

The personal journal is often not meant for the eyes of anyone but the writer. When a stranger’s journal is read, the reader often becomes a voyeur...

Added: Nov 20, 2018
Length: 29:00

StoryCorps: Barb Abelhauser and John Maycumber

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Barb Abelhauser explains how she quit an office job she hated and became a bridgetender, beginning a career she quickly fell in love with.

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio

Added: Apr 15, 2016
Length: 02:13
Purchases: 2

Female truckers: Meet the women behind the wheels

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf

Fewer than 10% of truck drivers are women, and this episode of Audacious, meet three of them: One drives a tow truck, another owns a CDL training s...

Added: Feb 08, 2024
Length: 50:00

StoryCorps: Sharon Long and Steve Sutter

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Enrolling in college at 40 to study art, Sharon Long had no idea an anthropology class would put her on a path to a career as a forensic artist.

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio

Added: Apr 29, 2016
Length: 02:20
Purchases: 2

Bend, but Don't Break

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

My mom always used to tell me, 'Only the strong survive.' To this day, those words live in me.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Oct 17, 2019
Length: 04:17
Purchases: 1

RDD: Fighting Fire with Jennifer

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

Join The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor as a local Toledo firefighter talks about a normal day on the job.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: May 31, 2016
Length: 06:08
Purchases: 1

UnFictional: Women's Work

From: KCRW

A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...

Bought by KUAC, XRAY.fm, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Aspen Public Radio and more

Added: Mar 04, 2013
Length: 28:31
Purchases: 6

"Madam, When You're Going to Have a Baby, You Don't Take a Number"

From: Johanna (Jones) Franzel

A few days before she gave birth, Elizabeth learned she was carrying not one baby, but two.

Added: Aug 19, 2005
Length: 04:09

StoryCorps: Trista James, Tanya James and Michelle Paugh

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

In 1979, Tanya James went to work in the West Virginia coal mines. She came to StoryCorps to share her experiences from those early days.

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WRIR, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more

Added: Mar 18, 2016
Length: 02:27
Purchases: 6

Lee Plaza, Caregiver

From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California

Caption: Lee Plaza at one of her organizing meetings, Credit: Photo by Rebecca Ressler

Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...

Added: Jul 27, 2019
Length: 07:35

Commentary: Pay Women What They're Worth

From: Dick Meister

It's Equal It's Equal Pay Day again, time to remind us of the discrimination that keeps working women's pay far behind that of men.ps workiIt

Added: Apr 17, 2008
Length: 02:37

Haiti's Dark Secret: The Restavecs

From: Rachel Leventhal

Josimene is ten years old. She is one of Haiti's 300,000 restavecs, or child slaves. While her parents were promised she'd be educated if they sen...

Added: Apr 23, 2009
Length: 12:57

3. Kinoko, YMCA staff and musical chip bender

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)

Dayjob is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

Added: Aug 21, 2008
Length: 03:12

The Working Tapes: Phone Operator

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

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