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Working History spotlights the work of leading labor historians, activists, and practitioners focusing especially on the U.S. and global Souths, to inform public debate and dialogue about current labo... more
FAQs about Working History:How many episodes does Working History have?The podcast currently has 55 episodes available.
August 01, 2017Preserving Southern Labor's PastTraci JoLeigh Drummond, archivist for the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University in Atlanta, discusses the preservation of materials related to southern labor history, new collections open to researchers, digital access to archival sources, and what makes a collection of records "archive worthy."...more33minPlay
June 20, 2017LGBT Discrimination and Activism in the Southern WorkplaceJoshua Hollands, of the Institute of the Americas at University College London, discusses his award-winning essay, “There’s a Bigot in Your Biscuit’: Workplace Discrimination at Cracker Barrel, Civil Rights, and Corporate Activism in the Southern United States,” and the past and present of LGBT discrimination and activism in the southern workplace....more42minPlay
May 31, 2017Southern Small Farmers Standing Their GroundProfessor Adrienne Petty discusses her book, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War, the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....more40minPlay
May 03, 2017Freedom Struggles in the Post-Civil Rights Rural SouthProfessor Greta de Jong of the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses her book, You Can't Eat Freedom, rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South....more32minPlay
April 05, 2017From Indentured Servant to Modern-Day GuestworkerProfessor Cindy Hahamovitch of the University of Georgia discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured servants and today's guestworkers....more40minPlay
December 07, 2016The Long History of Mexican Migration to the Deep SouthProfessor Julie Weise of the University of Oregon discusses her book, Corazón de Dixie, the long history of Mexican migration to states in the Deep South, and the roots of anti-immigrant politics and policies in the region today....more37minPlay
November 02, 2016Race, Identity, and MemoryProfessor Blain Roberts of California State University, Fresno, talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors of the Jim Crow era and ends with remembrances of slavery in modern-day Charleston, South Carolina....more35minPlay
September 13, 2016What Does "Working Class" Mean in American Politics?Professor Robyn Muncy of the University of Maryland discusses the history of the term "working class" and its uses in American politics from the 1930s to today....more32minPlay
May 25, 2016Migrant Workers and Labor Relations from South Texas to the NationJohn Weber, Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University, discusses his book, "From South Texas to the Nation," migrant agricultural labor, immigration policy, and the long-term impacts of the labor relations model that developed in South Texas during the early twentieth century....more40minPlay
April 26, 2016Social Justice from the U.S. South to South AfricaAlex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, discusses his new book with co-author Rick Halpern, "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid," photojournalism, and writing transnational histories of labor and social justice movements....more36minPlay
FAQs about Working History:How many episodes does Working History have?The podcast currently has 55 episodes available.