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Working History, 63 episodes.

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Working History, Past and Future

2

Ghosts of World War II: Recovering Korean Forced Laborers

3

ICE and Resistance in the Twin Cities

4

The Business of Being Dolly

5

The Women of Mexico's Railroads

6

Back to School

7

The Handoff

8

Working History Reboot Promo

9

Fall for Liberation with Maria Harmon

10

Organizing Faculty in Florida with Paul Ortiz

11

The Present and Future of Southern Labor: The UAW’s Historic Win at Volkswagen

12

Beyond Norma Rae

13

Southern Exposure at 50: Sue Thrasher, Bob Hall, and Leah Wise

14

Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama

15

Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami

16

Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

17

Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Bouloubasis

18

Citizen and Other: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the United States

19

Labor, Capital, and Politics in the Industrial South

20

Race, Class, and Communism in the Jim Crow South

21

Politics of the Pantry

22

Southern Sisters and Social Justice in the Jim Crow South

23

Making the Woman Worker

24

Race, Slavery, and Psychiatry

25

Reconciling a Slaveholding Past

26

Beef: Exploitation, Innovation, and How Meat Changed America

27

Appalachia: A Regional Reckoning

28

”You Can’t Eat Coal”: Women’s Social Justice Activism in Appalachia

29

Novelist Wiley Cash on “The Last Ballad” and the Loray Mill Strike

30

Reconsidering Southern Labor History

31

Slavery and Memory

32

Revisioning the American Past though African American and Latinx History

33

Shaping a New Conservatism in the South

34

Murder, Race and (In)Justice

35

”Hillbilly Hellraisers” and Rethinking the Roots of Populist Politics

36

Poor Whites in the Slave South

37

The High Cost of Cheap Food

38

A New Narrative for Labor in the 1970s (Labor Day Episode 2017)

39

Preserving Southern Labor’s Past

40

LGBT Discrimination and Activism in the Southern Workplace

41

Southern Small Farmers Standing Their Ground

42

Freedom Struggles in the Post-Civil Rights Rural South

43

From Indentured Servant to Modern-Day Guestworker

44

The Long History of Mexican Migration to the Deep South

45

Race, Identity, and Memory

46

What Does ”Working Class” Mean in American Politics?

47

Migrant Workers and Labor Relations from South Texas to the Nation

48

Social Justice from the U.S. South to South Africa

49

Academic Publishing in the Digital Age

50

Justice for a Toxic Town

51

Southern Histories through Women’s Words

52

The Roots of the Modern Anti-Union Movement

53

The White Whale: Why Moby Dick Is a Story about the Fate of Southern Labor in the Age of Slavery

54

A Lifetime of Building Solidarity

55

Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South

56

Religion’s Role in Organizing the South

57

Disaster Response in Historical Perspective

58

Black Women Convict Laborers in the New South

59

“Best True Stories of Life and Work on the Panama Canal”

60

Immigrant Rights, Detentions, and Activism

61

Tobacco, Family Farms, and Federal Policy

62

The Labor Question and Higher Education

63

The Roots of Black Protest Politics