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English - January 21, 2019 22:25 - 47 minutes - 48 MB - ★★★★ - 9 ratings
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This week's labor history: On today’s show, Martin Luther King, Jr. on the dignity of labor, labor historian Erik Loomis on “A History of America in Ten Strikes,” plus the 1913 Rochester strike by 10,000 clothing workers, Bill Fletcher remembers the 2000 police attack on picketing longshoremen in Charleston, South Carolina, and a rare speech by Dr. King for “Cool things from the George Meany Labor Archives.”

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Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/

This week's music:
Glory: Common, John Legend
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