PRX - Pieces for Topic: Labor
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 26, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 18:31
Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 1
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
Greg Yance and Neoma Farr worked alongside each other during the Great Flood of 1993, to gird the town of Niota, Illinois from the rising waters of...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Jul 02, 2018
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
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
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
