In this episode we chat to writer and science historian Audra Wolfe about organised labour, constructing a union for scientists, and the myth of apolitical science.

Audra's writing has appeared in the Washington Post and The Atlantic. She is the author of Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science and the award winning Competing With the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America.

• Audra Wolfe @ColdWarScience
• Never Just Science newsletter
• audrajwolfe.com
• Freedom's Laboratory (JHU Press)
• Competing with the Soviets (JHU Press)
• The Great Google Revolt |  NYT Mag
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• Nature endorsement

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