PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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Tipping culture is changing in America. What’s driving tipflation and tipcreep – and what’s expected of consumers?
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 3
The US is seeing an unusual spike in union activity and public support for unions. What does this moment mean for the future of labor in America?
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 4
Fines and fees have become the default way we punish people; deterrence is the ultimate goal, but do fines actually deter bad behavior?
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 4
Labor Day is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on some of the memories we have from working hard, being with family, or learning somethi...
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 7
This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 1
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 24:42
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 27:26
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Students at Highland Park Elementary School in Austin, Texas talk to their PE teacher about his life.
- Added: Dec 17, 2018
- Length: 04:40
Percy White III tells his friend Terry Wright about his family’s time as sharecroppers on a Virginia farm.
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Aug 06, 2018
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
BLEEP loved the city of his birth, the pearl of the west, Guadalajara, second largest city in Mexico. He wandered its streets as a boy visited the...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 28:07
- Purchases: 1
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 20:18
When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 30:36
Willie Harris and Alex Brown remember the prejudice they faced as African American stuntmen while breaking into the film industry in the 1960s.
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
Adam Graff, a member of New Orleans' all-volunteer, mental health crisis unit, speaks with his wife, Jacqueline, about the surge in patients after ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 3
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 03:24
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 4
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 16:10
- Purchases: 1
A single lie could cost a job – or a life – as it turned out for Eric Duncan, the Ebola “Patient Zero” in Texas. What if there was a way to accurat...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 2
