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Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Jobs

Brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. Bringing you stories and struggles, people and perspectives, interviews and commentaries, all on the world of work yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The program explores a wide range of social and economic topics impacting the way we work, presented through a unique historical perspective. Interviews feature local and national guests -- change agents, activists, experts, workers, researchers, and more. | Website: essentialworkpodcast.org | Listener line: 412-326-9435 | Contact us with comments, questions, & suggestions: https://bit.ly/35nMSAd | Sign up for Listener Alerts: https://bit.ly/3tZTMWn | Please support this podcast and the organization: battleofhomestead.org | Host, Producer, Program Manager: Nathan Ruggles (nathanruggles.org) | Host, Pathways to a New Economy that Works for All of Us (addressing labor, environment and health): Dr. Patricia DeMarco (patriciademarco.com) | Feature commentators: Rosemary Trump, Dr. Charles McCollester. | Production advisor: Angela Baughman (thatsoundgirl.com) | Logo design: Brittany Sheets (bsheetscreative.com) | Original Music by Jason Kendall (Jasonkendallproductions.com) | Essential Work is available on popular podcast platforms and apps.

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Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Jobs

Working Over Time: What’s at Stake in Election 2020

October 31, 2020 • The Battle of Homestead Foundation • Season 1 • Episode 9

This is Episode 9 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Working Over Time: What’s at Stake in Election 2020

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Commentators Rosemary Trump and Charlie McCollester return just in time for Election Day with their regular feature Working Over Time. They discuss what’s at stake for working people , with host Nathan Ruggles, the origins of current issues, and look ahead to what we might expect both post-election and in 2021.
Larry McCullough talks over the latest from the Battle of Homestead Foundation (including the ongoing YouTube series “Charlie’s Monday Marker”) The episode wraps with an inspired music selection from Larry, a folk song among the many found and recorded over decades by journalist George Korson, and which are now part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress:

“This Is What the Union Done” by Uncle George Jones

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