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Solidarity Forever

By: Roscoe Mathieu
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  • The history and how-to of American labor, from 1619 to tomorrow's headlines. Starting with the Jamestown strike (as the White Lion landed), this podcast will cover American labor history in its advances, setbacks, triumphs, and shames, interspersed with labor theory and practice for making labor history of your own.


    Solidarity forever, friends!


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Episodes
  • Farwell, Hunt, and Shaw

    Farwell, Hunt, and Shaw
    May 27 2024
    Today we look at two landmark labor law cases argued and decided in a heady few weeks in the summer of 1842...and at the man, "no friend of labor," who made them happen.

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    17 mins
  • The Ten-Hour Day

    The Ten-Hour Day
    May 14 2024
    The ten-hour day, "six to six" with an hour for breakfast and an hour for supper, was the key fight of the late 1830s. Championed by the National Trades Union and the mill-girls of Lowell, the movement for a ten hour day would win some, and lose some, until it all came to a head in 1840.

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    20 mins
  • There is Power in a Union

    There is Power in a Union
    Apr 29 2024

    In our first How To episode, we're starting at the beginning, with labor theory 101. Who is your boss? What's capital? And how does the night shift who always forgets to put away the cleaning supplies fit into all this?


    Find out here, how there is power in a union.


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    19 mins
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