This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Making the Woman Worker
Eileen Boris on “Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards” from the Working History podcast. Plus this week’s labor history highlights!
Last week's show: (11/24): FWW&CP, the ILO and Lattimer ReduxDebs, Sanders, Socialism and 2020
President Roosevelt announces the end of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), concluding the four-year run of one of the American government's most ambitious public works programs. It helped create jobs for roughly 8.5 million people during the Great Depression and left a legacy of highways and public buildings, among other public gains - 1943
- David Prosten; photo courtesy ThisDayInWorldHistory.com
Eileen Boris on “Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards” from the Working History podcast. Plus this week’s labor history highlights!
Last week's show: (11/24): FWW&CP, the ILO and Lattimer ReduxDebs, Sanders, Socialism and 2020
President Roosevelt announces the end of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), concluding the four-year run of one of the American government's most ambitious public works programs. It helped create jobs for roughly 8.5 million people during the Great Depression and left a legacy of highways and public buildings, among other public gains - 1943
- David Prosten; photo courtesy ThisDayInWorldHistory.com