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All Episodes

A Work(place) in Progress — 53 episodes

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1

Is AI a Threat, A History of Workplace Automation

2

Working Without Coverage

3

Gender Bias in Status Professions

4

The Worm in the Apple: How a Lack of Resources is Killing Education

5

More Than the Classroom: Teachers and the Fight to Be Heard

6

How Biomedical Innovation Transformed Nursing Labor

7

How Unions Weld Us

8

Under Pressure: The Welfare State By Plumbers, For Plumbers

9

Of Maids and Mops: The Value of Domestic Workers

10

Big Work, Small Hands: Child Labor Through Time

11

The Weight of What We Throw Away

12

Battle in the Skies: PATCO vs Washington

13

Dialing In: The Fight For Fair Work

14

The Cost of a Hero: Firefighters, Fair Pay, and the Southern Struggle

15

Braceros: Hands that Fed America

16

Protected Time: Why We Should Expand FMLA

17

Breaking Silences: A Fight for Equality in the Military

18

Behind the Desk: The Toll on Women

19

Should It Be a Union?

20

The Silent Struggle: Exploitation in the Teaching Profession

21

Loaded Labor: Fear, Violence, and the Burdens of a Woman’s Work

22

Cleaning Up After Managerial Negligence

23

From Takeoff to Landing: The Struggle of Air Traffic Controllers

24

Food for Thought: The Bloody Past and Present of Meatpacking

25

Invisible Threats: Carcinogens in the Workplace

26

When the Lights Go Out

27

Breaking Character: Women in Theater

28

The Secret Behind the Camera

29

Writers' Rights

30

Copyrights, Royalties, and AI

31

Sex Work is Work

32

Labor Rights and Reproductive Rights

33

Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workforce

34

The Overlooked Work of Pre-K and Daycare Teachers

35

The Nursing Exodus

36

Threads of Impact

37

Textile Tension

38

A Labor of Love (and Social Justice)

39

The Hidden Creativity Industry

40

Raising the Curtain on Women in Theater

41

A Comparative History of Airline Strikes

42

Evaluating the Evaluators

43

Resilience in Scrubs: Moving Through the Continuous Healthcare Strikes in Georgia

44

Overworked and Underappreciated: The Reality of Nursing

45

What's the Deal with the UFW?

46

Is AI Really That Bad?: The History of Automation and The Future of AI

47

One Word at a Time: Writers of the Industry

48

Pregnancy, Paychecks, and Progress

49

Journals of Refugee Women

50

How Carl Owens Cracked the Barrel

51

A.I.D.S. (Acquired Inferences on Disease Stigma): How Disease Impacts Labor and Communities

52

From Chains to Incarceration

53

Steelwork Shenanigans