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Episode 3-2 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Part 2 of our Year in Review/Year in Preview with labor leader Rosemary Trump and labor historian Dr. Charles McCollester. They continue their discussion with host Nathan Ruggles on a range of issues facing workers on the job and in society today.

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Episode 3-1 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

A New Year and new season on the podcast!

Long-time friends of the show, labor leader Rosemary Trumpand labor historian Dr. Charles McCollesterjoin host Nathan Ruggles for a Year in Review/Year in Preview on a range of issues facing workers on the job and in society today.

Film: Don't Look Up on Netflix

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Episode 2-5 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

A bonus previously unreleased excerpt from our interview with entrepreneur and author Jeff Wald., in which he talks about his $10 Million “Future of Work” Prize with host Nathan Ruggles. In the last episode, they had an in-depth conversation of Jeff’s book The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Check out that in Episode 2-4 here.

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Episode 2-4 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Host Nathan Ruggles discusses the book The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations with author Jeff Wald. A best-selling writer, tech entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of WorkMarket and Spinback, Jeff examines how companies and workers reacted to the last three industrial revolutions. They review this history of work and his analysis of how it has led to the current state of the labor market, along with how workers, companies and societies might respond to the coming Rise of the Robots.

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This is Episode 2-3 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Nathan Ruggles hosts our feature interview Dr. Joe Trotter is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), President Elect of the Urban History Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest publication is Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (University of California Press, 2019).

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Season 2, Episode 2 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Nathan Ruggles hosts our feature interview with the co-founders of ASA Social Fund for Hidden Peoples: Dr. Louis Picard and Pauline Greenlick. They discuss microloans, and how they provide financial resources and support to qualified individuals and groups -- particularly to vulnerable and fragile children and adults beset by strife, disability, or trauma in Uganda -- helping them build sustainable, successful business enterprises. We take a look through our unique lens of past, present, and future: getting the all-important background to their organization, hearing the stories of the microloan recipients, along with discussing what lies beyond the impact of the pandemic.

ASA Social Fund for Hidden Peoples: https://asasocialfundforhiddenpeoples.org
Pauline Greenlick’s films for the organization and IMDb page
Dr. Louis Picard at The University of Pittsburgh

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This is Season 2, Episode 1 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

The start of a new season!

Host Nathan Ruggles talks with Battle of Homestead Foundation Communications Manager and music guru Larry McCullough. After a quick check-in and look back on the organization, Larry kicks off this season with a selection from the cannon of presidential campaign songs. He reviews the New Lost City Ramblers and their version of “Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again,” from their album “Songs from the Depression”, with a look back at its place in the tradition of both music and presidential politics.

“Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again” on YouTube Music

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This is Episode 11 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

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Patricia DeMarco (https://patriciademarco.com) hosts our feature interview with Rayden Sorock, Director of Community Projects for Grow Pittsburgh, who has worked to support the growth and sustainability of more than 100 community gardens in Allegheny County over 9 years. They discuss initiatives around urban agriculture and preserving fertile land in Pittsburgh to feed people, along with ideas of regenerative agriculture.
Grow Pittsburgh: growpittsburgh.org
“Pathways to a New Economy that Works for All of Us”: With her thirty-year career in energy and environmental policy in both the private and public sector, Dr. DeMarco regularly addresses labor, environment and health considerations as she explores Re-Imagining America with her guests -- all amazing experts and change agents -- who are building those positive pathways toward a sustainable future.
Battle of Homestead Foundation Communications Manager Larry McCullough talks with host Nathan Ruggles, reviewing the online programming from the past year -- including the YouTube series “Charlie’s Monday Marker” -- and inviting listeners to contribute ideas for future events (email bhfprograms@gmail.com). The episode wraps with a music selection from Larry. This time, it’s an example of a Mexican-American corrido with a labor and political theme. The song is composed by Rumel Fuentes, and recorded in 1976 by Los Pinguinos Del Norte, preserved as part of the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings at UCLA:
Corrido de César Chávez

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This is Episode 10 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

"Investing in Communities to Build a New Economy: A Marshall Plan for Middle America"

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A feature interview from host Patricia DeMarco (https://patriciademarco.com), this time withTom Croft, Managing Director of Heartland Capital Strategies (www.heartlandnetwork.org) and Executive Director of the Steel Valley Authority (www.steelvalley.org). They discuss the Marshall Plan for Middle America Roadmap along with responsible investing and its impact on economies and communities. They also delve into layoff aversion, innovative economic policy, and investment in sustainable energy, and what it all means for jobs in the Appalachian region and beyond.
Reimagine Appalachia: https://reimagineappalachia.org
“Pathways to a New Economy that Works for All of Us”: With her thirty-year career in energy and environmental policy in both the private and public sector, Dr. DeMarco regularly addresses labor, environment and health considerations as she explores Re-Imagining America with her guests -- all amazing experts and change agents -- who are building those positive pathways toward a sustainable future.
Larry McCullough takes a look at recent episodes and previews upcoming stories in the YouTube series “Charlie’s Monday Marker” with host Nathan Ruggles. He also invites listeners to contribute their ideas for future programming by the Battle of Homestead Foundation (email bhfprograms@gmail.com). As with each episode, it wraps with a music selection from Larry. This time, it’s a historic folk song composed by Slovakian immigrant Andrew Kovaly, and recorded byVivian Richman, preserved as part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress:
“Aja Lejber Man” (I’m a Working Man)

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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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Episode 8 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation:

A 21st Century WPA: Back from Halimuhfack

Taking a look at the most impactful and ambitious employment program in American history: the Works Progress Administration, or WPA

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Nathan Ruggles talks with Max Page of the University of Massachusetts Amherst about his recent piece in Labor Notes entitled “In the Face of Mass Unemployment, We Need a 21st Century WPA.” Page is Professor of Architecture and a Director of Historic Preservation Initiatives and Vice President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. They review the powerful past legacy of the WPA, his proposal for a WPA for today, and a vision for what such a program could mean for the future.
The Living New Deal: https://livingnewdeal.org
Larry McCullough follows up with a song recording that directly resulted from WPA initiatives: “Halimuhfack” by Zora Neale Hurston. Nathan and Larry also discuss the latest news from the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

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Episode 7 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation:

Pathways to a New Economy that Works for Us

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Patty DeMarco returns with Pathways to a New Economy. Her feature interview is with teacher, activist and organizer Michael Bagdes-Canning. They talk dirty jobs and clean ones, failing industry and green, along with fracking and climate change.
Dr. Patricia DeMarco: patriciademarco.com
Michael Bagdes-Canning: mikeforpa64.com
Larry McCullough joins host Nathan Ruggles with the latest from the Battle of Homestead Foundation, and his music selections -- including a live studio surprise -- related to the feature theme of the episode.
“Paradise” by John Prine
“Freakin Frackin” by Jay Kulstad, from the album: World Gone Blind, available on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Episode 6 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

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A feature interview about the issues facing immigrant workers from Latin America in the United States, and in particular those who are undocumented, with Guillermo Perez from theLabor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA). Topics also include Puerto Rico, baseball, and the annual event celebrating storied Hall of Famer Robert Clemente: ¡Que Viva Clemente!

Larry McCullough with the latest online events from the Battle of Homestead Foundation, before the wrap-up music selection. This week: not one but 2 songs from the Puerto Rican tradition:

Mister con macana by Roy Brown
Cuando Yo Canto Una Plena by La Recompensa (La R)

¡Que Viva Clemente! Event Registration

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Episode 5 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Final episode in the series featuring the struggles of food service workers. Representatives of the nonprofit organization The Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) Pittsburgh talk with Nathan Ruggles about their experiences. Organizer and former server Bobbit Linskens, and local barista and member of ROC, Abbey Rideout conclude the multipart interview by detailing the particular challenges for restaurant workers under a pandemic, additional work by ROC, and talk about their hopes for the future. (Be sure to check out Parts 1 & 2!.)

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Episode 4 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

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A feature interview continuing the focus on the struggles of food service workers with Part 2 of a conversation with the nonprofit organization The Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) PA and their work fighting to improve wages and working conditions. This part covers the issue of wages and benefits in the industry, through the experiences of Bobbi Linskens, organizer and former server, and Abbey Rideout, a barista and member of ROC. (Part 3 will appear in a special bonus episode.)

Battle of Homestead Foundation Communication Manager Larry McCollough with the latest on upcoming free online events hosted by the organization. The episode finished with a song selection from Larry, another inspired by the theme of the restaurant worker:

“Nickeled and Dimed” from the film “The American Ruling Class”, inspired by the book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America,” written by the social historian Barbara Ehrenreich in 1998.

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Episode 3 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

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A feature examining the struggles of food service workers through a conversation with Pittsburgh representatives of the nonprofit organization The Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC). Nathan Ruggles talks with organizer and former server Bobbit Linskens, and local barista and member of ROC, Abbey Rideout. Topics in this multipart interview include their experiences on the job, the issues they and other workers in the industry have been facing, the particular challenges for restaurant workers under a pandemic, the work ROC has done to help struggling workers, and their hopes for the future. (Part 2 will appear in a special bonus episode!)
A spotlight on upcoming free online events hosted by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. Communication Manager Larry McCollough provides the latest. The episode closes (as always) with a song selected by Larry, this time inspired by the restaurant worker: “Compliments of Your Waitress” from eclectic English band Chumbawanda (known for their 1997 hit “Tubthumping.”)

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This is Episode 2 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Episode 2 includes:

The start of a new monthly feature called Working Over Time, with regular expert commentators Rosemary Trump and Charlie McCollester. Host Nathan Ruggles engages with them on the issue of worker health and safety in the time of a pandemic, with a historic perspective and attention to the role of unions.

Following that is a discussion with Larry McCullough covering free online programs and upcoming eventsl hosted by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. The show ends as always with an appropriate music selection from Larry. This time: “We Just Come to Work Here, We Don’t Come to Die” composed by Oregon longshoreman Harry Stamper and recorded for Smithsonian Folkways by Pittsburgh singer-songwriter and labor activist Anne Feeney.

“We Just Come to Work Here, We Don’t Come to Die” — Anne Feeney, Classic Labor Songs (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), 2006. On Spotify.

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Membership and contributions are “essential” to their continued success in 2022.
Show your support today at battleofhomestead.org.Music: "Americana" by Mr. Smith.

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

The episode features:

Discussion between host Nathan Ruggles and John Haer, current President of the Battle of Homestead Foundation, about the organization, it’s mission, and why it’s starting a podcast.
As part of her regular segment Pathways to a New Economy, looking at labor, environment and health, Patty DeMarco interviews one of the leaders of the new ReImagine Appalachia initiative: Amanda Woodrum, of Policy Matters Ohio. They discuss the origins of this project to forge a new blueprint for the future of the region and beyond, with exciting proposals for developments around the economy, jobs, and the environment.
Nathan Ruggles talks with Battle of Homestead communications manager and labor music aficionado Larry McCullough, introducing the regular final segment in which they take the show out on a song. They discuss this weeks selection, “Four Loom Weaver,” along with some of the latest news and events from the organization.

Podcast website:

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Comment line: (412) 326-9435

Email: bhfpodcast.nathan@gmail.com

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Original Music by Jason Kendall

Jasonkendallproductions.com

In 2021, The Battle of Homestead Foundation discovered new ways to advance their mission of heritage, education and social action.
Membership and contributions are “essential” to their continued success in 2022.
Show your support today at battleofhomestead.org.Music: "Americana" by Mr. Smith.

Support the show (https://battleofhomestead.org/donations/)

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