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This is a multi-part limited series looking at labor history in the United States from 1492 to present day. This series uses a Marxist lens to provide context for the relationship between labor and ca... more
FAQs about Leftist Labor History:How many episodes does Leftist Labor History have?The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.
March 20, 2022EpilogueThis is a wrap up of the series, offering some takeaways from a survey of the long history of American labor....more54minPlay
September 03, 2021Episode 7: Neoliberalism 1980--PresentThis final episode brings us up to the present, examining the neoliberal era. Silicon Valley is a microcosm of neoliberalism, and many boosters point to its successes (or, increasingly, to a lack of an alternative). By peeling back the history of the place, we find that it is founded in a Cold War, anti-labor ideology....more41minPlay
August 12, 2021Episode 6 pt. 2: Deindustrialization 1947--1981After World War II breaking the power of organized labor was a top priority for US companies. Deindustrialization was the process by which firms automated their operations and moved them to parts of the country with no union presence. At the end of the episode I examine some explanations for the decline of Big Labor....more31minPlay
August 03, 2021Episode 6 pt. 1: Labor and the Civil Rights MovementThis episode examines the impact of the coalition between organized labor and the Civil Rights Movement. It also looks at farmworker organizing in California....more26minPlay
May 12, 2021Bonus episode: Bias in labor historiographyThis bonus episode examines the biases of labor historians, especially those of the New Left from the 1960s and 1970s. Writing from a perspective that privileged militant action among wage laborers in factory jobs, these seminal historians reproduced a societal bias against traditionally feminine work....more21minPlay
April 24, 2021Episode 5: The New DealLabor movement since the 1880s led to the state recognizing the demands of workers. In this episode I discuss what workers gained and what they conceded to get a measure of protection from the government....more49minPlay
March 12, 2021Episode 4: Labor Movement and Labor WarBetween the years of 1886 and 1929, organized labor takes on a variety of forms. Craft unionism springs up in the American Federation of Labor, and radicals form the Industrial Workers of the World. Capital responds with both persuasion and violence....more52minPlay
February 25, 2021Bonus: Dialectical Materialism for DummiesUsing the slave labor / free labor dichotomy, I clarify what leftists mean when we talk about dialectical materialism....more10minPlay
February 25, 2021Episode 2: ReconstructionWith chattel slavery abolished, workers and capital grapple over the new form of labor. Centers on an analysis of the free labor ideology....more33minPlay
February 24, 2021Episode 1: American SlaveryThe roots of American capitalism lie in forced labor. Beginning with Native American slavery in Spanish America, forced labor changed shape as British North America came to rely on enslaved people and a violent racial caste system. By the 1800s, one of the cruelest, most gruesome institutions in human history enriched the white Western world....more36minPlay
FAQs about Leftist Labor History:How many episodes does Leftist Labor History have?The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.