Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place
Dr. Lisa Fine explains how the working class, local unions, and sportsman’s organization collaborated throughout the twentieth century to pr...
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20 of 104 episodesFreedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity
Dr. Cedric De Leon explains how, from the founding of the African Blood Brotherhood in 1919 through the 1963 March on Washington, Black work...
Tales From the Reuther Library Director’s Office: An Interview with Katrina Rouan
Host Dan Golodner and Katrina Rouan trade quips while reflecting on the progress that has been made during her first 18 months as the direct...
Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing
Dr. Michael Stauch explains how newly elected Detroit Mayor Coleman Young introduced “community policing” to the city in 1974, an experiment...
Women on a Mission: The Remarkable Heroes Who Put Men on the Moon
Children’s book author and engineer Suzanne Slade describes the creative process she used to engage the next generation of women in STEM (sc...
The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
John Fabian Witt recounts how in the 1920s and 1930s Charles Garland donated his million-dollar inheritance to the American Fund for Public...
The 1968 Florida Teachers’ Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight against Sunshine State Conservatism
Dr. Jody Baxter Noll recounts the 1968 Florida Teachers’ Strike, in which 27,000 teachers across the state, amidst a shift in Florida politi...
Talking Archives with the Society of Women Engineers
Karen Horting, Executive Director and CEO of the Society of Women Engineers, talks about SWE’s archives at the Reuther Library and shares ho...
Polish American Women and Detroit’s 1938 Federal Screw Works Strike
Dr. Martin Hershock recounts the violent three-day strike against General Motors supplier Federal Screw Works in 1938, when women from Detro...
Talking History with AFA President Sara Nelson
In celebration of the Reuther Library’s 50th anniversary, Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA,...
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Professor Michelle Adams describes the struggles to integrate Detroit’s highly segregated neighborhoods and schools in the 1960s, a federal...
Remembering the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center
Dr. Beth Widmaier Capo discusses the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center and the role health practitioners there—including her mother—pla...
Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976
John Miles Branch discusses the National Labor Relations Board’s policy to dismiss union petitions at charitable organizations in the decade...
Talking Archives with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride
In celebration of the Reuther Library’s 50th anniversary, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride reflects on the role the union’s history...
Coach of Champions: D.L. Holmes and the Making of Detroit’s Track Stars
Dr. Keith Wunderlich shares the life and legacy of D.L. Holmes, athletic director of what is now Wayne State University from 1917 though 195...
Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education
Dr. Nick Juravich discusses the experiences of the first-generation of paraprofessional educators in New York City in the 1960s-1980s and th...
Oil Can Eddie and the Battle for the Steelworkers’ Union
Roger Biles and Mark Rose discuss the legacy of Eddie Sadlowski, a charismatic and progressive Chicago steelworker who, unhappy with the Uni...
Seeking “Self-Determination” in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971
Dr. Anna E. Lindner discusses the rise and subsequent downfall of the West Central Organization in Detroit, a coalition of civil rights orga...
Schools and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Brown World
Dr. Matt Kautz explores how evolving school disciplinary practices, changes in crime reporting, and political pressure in the decades follow...
The Worthy Wages Movement for Childcare Workers
Dr. Justine Modica discusses the Worthy Wages movement centered in Seattle from the 1980s through the 2000s. Affiliated with SEIU, daycare d...