Labor Heritage Power Hour Labor Day Special
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WPFW 89.3FM
Hour 1 (11a-12p): Strike While the Needle is Hot (58:51)
Chris Garlock sits down with Strike While the Needle is Hot authors Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block to spin and unpack strike records from the ’60s–’80s—including the rousing 1978 EP “Ford Workers on Strike.” A fast-moving tour of worker-made music and how vinyl captured picket lines, speeches, and solidarity anthems.
Hour 2 (12p-1p): Labor 131—Stories of U.S. Worker Struggle (59:01)
Selections from America’s Workforce Radio marking 131 years since Labor Day: Rudy Batzel on strikebreaking, race, and early unions; Jessie Wilkerson on the 1929 Elizabethton rayon strike; James Benton on trade policy hollowing out communities; and Carie Rael on the 22-day 1984 Disneyland strike that shook Orange County.
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