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Remembering Mary Kenney O’Sullivan (Encore)

Remembering Mary Kenney O’Sullivan (Encore)

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On this week's Labor History Today: Mary Kenney O’Sullivan, first AFL woman organizer; novelist Jack London’s classic definition of a scab; Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union leads Missouri Highway sit-down; Roosevelt creates National War Labor Board to mediate labor disputes during World War II.


Today’s show is an encore of our January 7-13, 2018 and features labor historians Joe McCartin and Leon Fink.



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Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.


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Remembering Mary Kenney O’Sullivan (Encore)

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