Today's Labor History

​This week's Labor History Today podcast: Jack Kelly’s "The Edge of Anarchy”; “Union Maids” director Julia Reichert (Part 2) 
Last week’s show: Julia Reichert: ‘We Don’t Just Interview People Once’; Montgomery Ward busted; May Day and Mother Jones 

Works Progress Administration (WPA) established at a cost of $4.8 billion -- more than $72 billion in 2011 dollars -- to provide work opportunities for millions during the Great Depression - 1935

400 black women working as tobacco stemmers walk off the job in a spontaneous revolt against poor working conditions and a $3 weekly wage at the Vaughan Co. in Richmond, Va. - 1937

- David Prosten; photo: Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Cannery Workers. John Collier, photographer, June 1942. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Prints & Photographs Division; source: Library of Congress

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