Welcome to the Reuther Library's podcast archive. They are arranged by publication date with the most recent on top and the oldest at the bottom.

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[Podcast] Brewing a Boycott: Collective Activism and the Decades-Long Coors Beer Boycott

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Dr. Allyson Brantley explains how large and diverse groups joined together for a decades-long consumer boycott of the Coors Brewing Company to fight against its union busting, discriminatory hiring practices, and politics.  read more »

[Podcast] Communists and Community in Wartime Detroit

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Dr. Ryan Pettengill explains how communist activists in Detroit worked with labor activists during and after the Second World War to enhance the quality of life in the community by advocating for civil rights, affordable housing, protections for the foreign-born, and more.  read more »

[Podcast] Sandfuture: Exploring Minoru Yamasaki, Lost Humanist Architecture, and the Rise of Sick Buildings and Sick People

(38385) Minoru Yamasaki, World Trade Center, 1964

Artist and author Justin Beal shares the career and legacy of influential yet often forgotten architect Minoru Yamasaki.  read more »

[Podcast] Midnight in Vehicle City: Modern Lessons From the Flint Sit-Down Strike

(3882) Strike calendar, Flint, Michigan

Edward McClelland recounts the gripping details of the Flint sit-down strike, and considers what we can learn today from the strikers’ successful fight for shared prosperity in 1936-1937.  read more »

[Podcast] Blaming Teachers: How America Simultaneously Professionalized and Patronized Education

(29150) Overcrowded Classrooms Split by Chalkboards

Dr. Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz explains how the push to professionalize and standardize educators beginning in the mid-1800s, without granting them decision-making power, has made them the public face of foundering school policies developed and implemented by local school administrators and state and national policymakers.  read more »

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