 Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week’s show: With the looming possibility of yet another government shutdown on Friday, labor archivist Ben Blake talks about efforts to “document the now” during the recent shutdown, and political science professor Marissa Martino Golden reveals that even with a president attempting to turn agency policy 180 degrees, most career civil servants are focused on doing their jobs. Interviews by Alan Wierdak and Patrick Dixon.
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born into slavery near Easton, Md. - 1818 John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America and founding president of the CIO, born near Lucas, Iowa - 1880 Labor history courtesy Union Communication Services. photo: 2019 shutdown signs at the UMD labor archives; photo by Chris Garlock Comments are closed.
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