Labor History Today: Week of February 4, 2018 by Union City Radio

Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Lane Windham and Julie Greene.

This week's labor history: Births of IWW founder Big Bill Haywood and Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man launched the 1955 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott; unemployment demonstrations and strikes during the Depression; the Seattle General Strike; state militia supports striking union miners in Cripple Creek, CO; Congress approves funding for Depression-era relief projects; Boeing engineers and technical workers strike.

Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Lane Windham is at the Kalmanovitz Initiative and co-directs the Women Innovating Labor Leadership Empower project, a joint initiative of Kalmanovitz and the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and author of “Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide.”
Julie Greene is a historian of United States labor, immigration, and empire; she teaches at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin Press, 2009),
Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.

Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com

Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history

This week's music:
Hold The Fort; The Union Boys
https://youtu.be/zPVeujpwCHc

The Red Flag; Billy Bragg
https://youtu.be/obpd9uc5HVg

Rosa Parks Equality song; Horrible Histories
https://youtu.be/sHttUInZHTY

Rosa Parks; Outkast
https://youtu.be/Ilf-2N6ibjg

Brother Can You Spare a Dime? - George Michael
https://youtu.be/Ij3ba71gtrU

How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times...Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/jYsSVNl8xmE

General Strike; Moe Shinola
https://youtu.be/ygDeYTUoBrE

War on the Workers; Anne Feeney
https://youtu.be/e78TqI53bPQ

General Strike; D.O.A.
https://youtu.be/JGDGqMmCcoM