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Tales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryTalking History with AFA President Sara NelsonIn celebration of the Reuther Library’s 50th anniversary, Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO discusses the importance of understanding labor and legislative history when bargaining for better labor contracts for flight attendants today. Related Resources: Turbulent Romance: The History of the Association of Flight Attendants Related Collections: Association of Flight Attendants: Dallas Records (LR000981) AFA Chicago/Rosemont: McDonald v. UAL Case Records (LR002386) AFA Washington, D.C.: McDonald v. UAL Case Records (LR002385) ALPA Steward and Stewardess Division Records (LR002252) ALPA Dallas BNF ME...
2025-11-2624 minNew Books Network
New Books NetworkJessica Catherine Reuther, "The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940" (Indiana UP, 2025)From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practice of girl fostering, or "entrusting." Transferring their daughters at a young age into foster homes, Dahomeans created complex relationships of mutual obligation, kinship, and caregiving that also exploited girls' labor for the economic benefit of the women who acted as their social mothers. Drawing upon oral tradition, historic images, and collective memories, Jessica Reuther pieces together the fragmentary glimpses of girls' lives contained in colonial archives within the framework of traditional understandings about...
2025-11-151h 14New Books in African Studies
New Books in African StudiesJessica Catherine Reuther, "The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940" (Indiana UP, 2025)From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practice of girl fostering, or "entrusting." Transferring their daughters at a young age into foster homes, Dahomeans created complex relationships of mutual obligation, kinship, and caregiving that also exploited girls' labor for the economic benefit of the women who acted as their social mothers. Drawing upon oral tradition, historic images, and collective memories, Jessica Reuther pieces together the fragmentary glimpses of girls' lives contained in colonial archives within the framework of traditional understandings about...
2025-11-151h 14Behind the Cover with Indiana University Press
Behind the Cover with Indiana University PressJessica Catherine Reuther, "The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940" (Indiana UP, 2025)From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practice of girl fostering, or "entrusting." Transferring their daughters at a young age into foster homes, Dahomeans created complex relationships of mutual obligation, kinship, and caregiving that also exploited girls' labor for the economic benefit of the women who acted as their social mothers. Drawing upon oral tradition, historic images, and collective memories, Jessica Reuther pieces together the fragmentary glimpses of girls' lives contained in colonial archives within the framework of traditional understandings about...
2025-11-151h 14New Books in Gender
New Books in GenderJessica Catherine Reuther, "The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940" (Indiana UP, 2025)From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practice of girl fostering, or "entrusting." Transferring their daughters at a young age into foster homes, Dahomeans created complex relationships of mutual obligation, kinship, and caregiving that also exploited girls' labor for the economic benefit of the women who acted as their social mothers. Drawing upon oral tradition, historic images, and collective memories, Jessica Reuther pieces together the fragmentary glimpses of girls' lives contained in colonial archives within the framework of traditional understandings about...
2025-11-151h 14New Books in History
New Books in HistoryJessica Catherine Reuther, "The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940" (Indiana UP, 2025)From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practice of girl fostering, or "entrusting." Transferring their daughters at a young age into foster homes, Dahomeans created complex relationships of mutual obligation, kinship, and caregiving that also exploited girls' labor for the economic benefit of the women who acted as their social mothers. Drawing upon oral tradition, historic images, and collective memories, Jessica Reuther pieces together the fragmentary glimpses of girls' lives contained in colonial archives within the framework of traditional understandings about...
2025-11-151h 14Tales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryTalking Archives with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBrideIn celebration of the Reuther Library’s 50th anniversary, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride reflects on the role the union’s history and archives play in current and future labor actions and organizing campaigns. Related Resources: AFSCME History Related Collections: AFSCME collections at the Reuther Library Episode Credits Interviewee: Elissa McBride Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English Music: Bart Bealmear
2025-09-2531 minHeartland Labor Forum
Heartland Labor ForumAlan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers OrganizeUAW founder Walter Reuther was famous, his brother Roy wasn’t, but he made important contributions to both the labor and civil rights movements. Roy’s son, Alan joins us this week […] The post Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize appeared first on KKFI.
2025-05-1300 minThe Chris Voss Show
The Chris Voss ShowThe Chris Voss Show Podcast – Gunky’s Adventures: In the Land of Must Believe by Jim Reuther Gunky’s Adventures: In the Land of Must Believe by Jim Reuther Jimreutherakagunky.com A few days after the passing of his beloved wife, author Jim Reuther, better known as Gunky, discovered her extraordinary letter in a handwritten notebook titled, “How to Get Along Without Me.” The notebook was a simple “How to Guide” for the tasks she had done faithfully for him until the end. But one request stood out; she challenged him to continue his writings. In Gunky’s Adventures, Reuther features a collection of twenty-five tales, one for each letter of th...
2025-04-1538 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryAwaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19Dr. Lori Flores discusses food systems in the US and Northeast region specifically, illuminating how the nation has developed a growing appetite for both Latinx food and Latinx food laborers, who are often underpaid and under-nourished as they help grow, process, transport, prepare, and serve food across the country. Flores is an associate professor of history at Stony Brook University and author of Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19.. Related Resources: Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 Related...
2025-02-2042 minStreams to Impact
Streams to ImpactHow to get started in rental property management with Krista Reuther Episode 506We'd love to hear from you. What are your thoughts and questions?In this episode of Streams to Impact, host Allen Lomax engages with Krista Reuther, Senior Education Content Manager at TurboTenant. They discuss Krista's journey from childhood experiences of bullying and trauma to her passion for empowering others through writing and mental health advocacy. Krista shares her insights on the importance of speaking up, the impact of her suicide prevention blog, and her current work in educating landlords. The conversation emphasizes the significance of breaking barriers and challenging mindsets to achieve financial freedom and personal growth.
2025-01-2829 minAverage Joe Finances
Average Joe Finances285. Mastering Landlord Strategies and Market Insights with Krista ReutherJoin us on Average Joe Finances as our guest Krista Reuther, the Senior Education Content Manager at TurboTenant, shares her journey into the industry starting as a freelance writer and editor in college, her growth into real estate content creation, and how she assists landlords and renters in saving money through data-driven content. Krista also offers valuable resources available on TurboTenant and highlights influential figures and recommendations in the real estate domain.In this episode:Learn the importance of using data-driven content to educate landlords and tenants.Discover the value of local property management...
2025-01-1932 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryA Fond Farewell with Audiovisual Archivist Mary WallaceReuther Library audiovisual archivist Mary Wallace has worn many hats over the past 27 years, from student page in the Reading Room to interim director and chief weather-spotter and safety monitor. As she prepares to retire in January 2025, Wallace reflects on the changes she’s seen at the Reuther and in the field, shares a few of her favorite collections and reference requests, and retells some of the more entertaining stories of life at the Reuther. Related Resources: Walter P. Reuther Library Related Collections: WWJ / WDIV Film, Video, and Teleprompter Scripts (UAV001112) Virtual Mo...
2024-12-2357 minThe Podcast On Podcasting
The Podcast On PodcastingHow To Create Episodes Your Listeners Actually Want To Hear - Krista Reuther [495]Whether you're a podcast pro or just starting out, Krista Reuther shares the secrets to managing not one but two thriving podcasts. Master audience engagement, expert guest management, and crafting content that sticks. Hop in for practical tips to elevate your podcast game and overcome common challenges. WHAT TO LISTEN FOR The power of a clear vision for your podcast Ways of using data surveys to craft episodes Why personal stories are crucial for engaging podcasts How to earn your audience's trust and loyalty
2024-12-1636 minRecession Resistant Real Estate Radio
Recession Resistant Real Estate RadioBecoming A Better Writer & Building Long Lasting Tenant Relationships With Krista Reuther“Every word has to earn the right to be on the page.  If you can tell a story in 50 words instead of 100, tell it in 50.” ~Krista Reuther       Having a passion for writing at an early age, Krista Reuther was published nationally by age 8.  Fast-forward to college where eating Raman noodles inspired her to start a freelance editing gig; she came across a document that changed her life…a business proposal for a luxury hotel introducing her to the world of real estate. Tune in as Kri...
2024-11-3031 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryDetroit Industry and ‘The Mural’Dr. Jay Cephas considers two Depression-era murals in Detroit and their contrasting messaging about workers, labor, and power. Diego Rivera’s famed Detroit Industry murals, commissioned by Edsel Ford for the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1932, champions industrial and technological progress and the factory workers who fueled it. In contrast, Walter Speck and Barbara Wilson’s 1937 untitled mural, which originally hung in the UAW Local 174 union hall and now hangs behind the reference desk at the Reuther Library, champions the progress those industrial workers made laboring for their own welfare via union action. Dr. Cephas is Assistant Prof...
2024-07-2531 minHour Of Decision
Hour Of DecisionHour of Decision Episode 25: Walter Reuther: “For a Soviet America”Lew explores the career of United Autoworkers (UAW) union leader Walter Reuther, and the central role he played in the implementation of the Fabian strategy in America. As a young man, he spent time in the communist USSR, wrote glowing letters home about his experience, signing one of them “Yours for a Soviet America.”Reuther was a central figure in the bloody battles against GM, Chrysler, and the prolonged struggle against Henry Ford. After the war, in the charged anti-communist atmosphere in America, Reuther ditches the communists,  turning on a dime as do many Fabian leftists in sudde...
2024-05-1635 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryHillbilly Highway: Charting White Migration from Appalachia to the Industrial MidwestDr. Max Fraser shares the often overlooked story of the “hillbilly highway,” the route nearly eight million poor, rural, white Americans took in the 20th century from economically depressed areas in the Southeastern and Southern United States toward higher paying factory jobs in the Upper South and Midwest. He explains how the social advancement and marginalization they experienced transformed American culture, the labor movement, and today’s political landscape. Dr. Fraser is an assistant professor of History at the University of Miami. His book Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class receiv...
2024-05-0943 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 12: Fankultur und Rätselspaß rund um die magische WeltIn dieser Folge von „Lumos‟ hat Moderatorin Birgit Reuther einen echten, enthusiastischen Harry-Potter-Nerd zu Gast: Sebastian Günther, seines Zeichens Producer im Podcast-Team des Hamburger Abendblatts. Seit seiner Kindheit ist er ein absoluter Überfan der magischen Welt rund um den berühmten Zauberlehrling. Im Gespräch erkunden die beiden die weit verzweigte Fankultur, die sich um Harry Potter gebildet hat. Sie tauchen ein in die Faszination für die Bücher, Filme, Computerspiele und das Theaterstück. Es geht darum, wie Harry Potter lebenslange Verbindungen schafft, aber auch für Diskussionen sorgt. Und bei einfachen bis kniffligen Rätsel-Fragen ist dann nich...
2024-04-1042 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 11: Gaststar Oliver Masucci als Snape in HamburgFans der magischen Welt rund um Harry Potter kennen Oliver Masucci aus dem Film „Fantastische Tierwesen: Dumbledores Geheimnisse‟ – als Anton Vogel, scheidender Präsident der Internationalen Konföderation der Zaubererwelt. In dieser Folge von „Lumos‟, dem Harry-Potter-Podcast des Abendblatts, spricht der international gefragte Schauspieler („Dark‟, „Er ist wieder da‟) über die Dreharbeiten in London und die Liebe zum Detail bei dieser Produktion. Vor allem aber redet er mit Moderatorin Birgit Reuther sehr persönlich über seine Verbindung zu Harry Potter. Und warum er sich als Kind eines italienischen Gastarbeiters gut mit dessen Außenseiterposition identifizieren kann. Es geht um den Glauben an sich selb...
2024-02-2936 minNews
NewsIm Gespräch: Gerd Reuther (“Hauptsache Panik: Ein neuer Blick auf Pandemien in Europa”)Muss die Seuchengeschichte neu geschrieben werden? Der pensionierte Radiologe und Medizinhistoriker Dr. med. Gerd Reuther meint: ja. Nach ihm seien Pandemien schon immer genutzt worden, um Bevölkerungen zu kontrollieren und zu reduzieren, um Reichtum neu zu verteilen sowie um Gesellschaften umzubauen. Vor 10 Jahren stieg der damalige Chefarzt vorzeitig aus seinem Beruf aus und verfasste anschließend mehrere kritische Bücher, um über die Medizinbranche aufzuklären. Seine Kritik bescherte ihm daraufhin eine Rüge von seiner Ärztekammer, da laut dieser kritische Aussagen über den Berufsstand nicht von der Meinungsfreiheit gedeckt seien. Sein aktuelles, mit seiner Frau Renate R...
2024-01-1200 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 9: Was das diverse Casting bei „Harry Potter‟ bedeutet„Dass Hermine mit einer Person of Color besetzt wurde, war für mich eine Riesensache‟, erzählt Zodwa Selele. In der Hamburger Inszenierung von „Harry Potter und das verwunschene Kind‟ verkörpert sie mit viel Verve und Wärme die erwachsene Hermine Granger. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Bühnentochter Meera Steinfatt alias Rose Granger-Weasley ist Selele zu Gast bei „Lumos‟, dem Harry-Potter-Podcast des Hamburger Abendblatts. Mit Gastgeberin Birgit Reuther sprechen sie über ihre Verbindung zur Welt der Zauberei, über ihren Werdegang und dass Steinfatt neben ihrem Engagement sogar noch studiert. In der Folge geht es auch darum, wie das Theaterstück mit bi...
2024-01-1243 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 8: Hogwarts in Hamburg – Julian Button lehrt ZaubereiGanz so üppig ausgestattet wie die Zauberschule Hogwarts in den „Harry Potter‟-Büchern und -Filmen sind die Klassenräume in Hamburg nicht. Doch auch an der Elbe wird Magie unterrichtet. Und zwar hinter den Kulissen des Theaterstücks „Harry Potter und das verwunschene Kind‟. Julian Button ist der Zauberlehrer, der den Darstellenden von Hermine Granger bis Scorpius Malfoy die nötigen Fingerfertigkeiten beibringt. Seine offizielle Position lautet Associate Magie und Illusionen. Er ist zudem Ballonkünstler, Schattenspieler, Musicaldarsteller, Schauspieler, Comedian, Moderator und seit mehr als 20 Jahren Mitglied des magischen Zirkels von Deutschland. In dieser Folge von „Lumos‟ spricht G...
2023-12-1435 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 7: Wie das Ensemble zu Harry, Hermine und Co. wirdAnina Eberhard ist Herrin über mehr als 500 Kostüme, 70 Hüte, 150 Paar Schuhe plus Brillen, Schmuck und Schals. Die Leiterin der Kostüm-Abteilung von dem Stück „Harry Potter und das verwunschene Kind‟ ist gemeinsam mit ihrer Kollegin Verena Einwanger, Leiterin der Abteilung Maske, zu Gast bei „Lumos‟, dem Harry-Potter-Podcast des Hamburger Abendblatts. Gastgeberin und Moderatorin Birgit Reuther begibt sich mit den beiden tief hinein in die Welt hinter der Bühne, also in das magische Reich von Perücken und Schminke, von Stoffen und Accessoires. Wie viele Stunden Vorbereitung sind vor jeder Show nötig? Wie entsteht Harry Potters berühmte...
2023-11-3038 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 6: Der Mann, der Harry Potter nach Deutschland holteLumos, der Harry-Potter-Podcast des Hamburger Abendblatts, beleuchtet die Welt rund um den berühmten Zauberer. In der sechsten Folge ist Klaus Humann zu Gast, der von 1997 bis 2012 den Carlsen Verlag in Ottensen leitete. Vor 25 Jahren ist dort der erste Harry-Potter-Teil in deutscher Sprache erschienen. Klaus Humann erzählt, wie er sich einst die Buchreihe von Autorin J.K. Rowling sichern konnte und was ihn sofort an der Geschichte faszinierte. Mit Lumos-Gastgeberin und Moderatorin Birgit Reuther spricht er darüber, wie viel Durchhaltevermögen sein Team und er anfangs benötigten. Und wie das kleine Verlagshaus schließlich von dem Erfolg...
2023-11-1648 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 5: Wie die Magie auf die Bühne kommtWie groß ist der Verschleiß an Zauberstäben bei der Hamburger Harry-Potter-Inszenierung? Wie entsteht überhaupt die Magie auf der Bühne? Und wird bei der Reise durch den Kamin vielleicht doch Flohpulver verwendet? Um Fragen wie diese dreht sich die neue Folge von Lumos, dem Harry-Potter-Podcast des Hamburger Abendblatts. Denn Moderatorin Birgit Reuther hat die Experten der Effekte zu Gast: Boris Neureiter, Technischer Leiter bei „Harry Potter und das verwunschene Kind‟, und Adrian Stoica, Bühnenmeister und stellvertretender technischer Leiter am Mehr!Theater. Die beiden reden von ihrem Berufsleben, von ihrer Begeisterung für Tricks und Timing und wie schwierig e...
2023-11-0236 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 4: Matthias Lienemann, Leiter am Harry-Potter-TheaterLumos, der Harry-Potter-Podcast des Hamburger Abendblatts, beleuchtet die Welt rund um den berühmten Zauberer. Was macht das Hamburger Mehr!Theater zu einem magischen Ort? Gibt es einen Lieblingsplatz, um „Harry Potter und das verwunschene Kind‟ zu sehen? Und wie viele Glühbirnen hängen eigentlich von den Decken im Foyer herab? All diese und noch mehr Fragen beantwortet Theaterleiter Matthias Lienemann in der dritten Folge des Podcast. Mit Moderatorin Birgit Reuther spricht er auch darüber, warum Hamburg der geeignete Ort für das Harry-Potter-Stück ist. Was für ein Publikum in sein Theater kommt. Und welche Strahlkraft...
2023-10-1929 minapolut: Standpunkte
apolut: StandpunkteBedrohliche Überzahl | Von Gerd Reuther und Renate ReutherEin Standpunkt von Gerd Reuther und Renate Reuther.Die Aussage, es gebe zu viele Menschen, geht vielen schnell über die Lippen — besonders den „Eliten“, die ihre eigene Existenzberechtigung nie in Zweifel ziehen.Wie viele sind eigentlich „zu viele“? Wenn die Herrschenden in der Geschichte eine drangvolle Enge zu verspüren glaubten, hatte dies immer mit deren subjektiven Befindlichkeiten, aber nie mit einer tatsächlichen Überbevölkerung zu tun. Obwohl im Mittelalter in Europa nur zwischen 10 und 20 Prozent der heutigen Anzahl von Menschen lebten, wurden Kreuzzüge, Glaubenskriege und Seuchen zur Depopulation eingesetzt. Auch heute kann außer...
2023-10-1808 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 3: Renate Herre vom Hamburger Carlsen-VerlagLumos, der Harry-Potter-Podcast des Hamburger Abendblatts, beleuchtet die Welt rund um den berühmten Zauberer. Und in der dritten Folge ist Renate Herre zu Gast, Verlegerin des Hamburger Carlsen Verlags. Vor 25 Jahren ist dort der erste Harry-Potter-Teil in deutscher Sprache erschienen. Die sieben Bände haben sich in der Übersetzung von Klaus Fritz seitdem 37 Millionen mal verkauft. Eine riesige Erfolgsgeschichte. „Lumos‟-Gastgeberin und Moderatorin Birgit Reuther spricht mit Renate Herre über den Harry-Potter-Kosmos bei Carlsen – vom Zauberbesen Nimbus 2000 im Foyer bis hin zu der neuen zweieinhalb Kilo schweren Sonderedition. Sie reden über Hermine als Identifikationsfigur und über das Zuhause, das sich in...
2023-10-0541 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 2: Die Malfoys aus dem Hamburger TheaterstückLumos, der Harry-Potter-Podcast des Hamburger Abendblatts, beleuchtet die Welt rund um den berühmten Zauberer. Und in der zweiten Folge hat Moderatorin Birgit Reuther die vermeintlich böse Seite zu Gast: Vater und Sohn Malfoy. Fabian Koller spielt in der Hamburger Theaterproduktion „Harry Potter und das verwunschene Kind‟ den jungen Scorpius Malfoy – eine ganz neue Figur, die er ungemein abwechslungsreich darstellt. Alen Hodzovic wiederum verkörpert seinen Vater, den legendären Draco Malfoy. Die beiden sind absolute Publikumslieblinge, sie bekommen viele Lacher und immer wieder Szenenapplaus. Warum ihr Hogwarts-Haus Slytherin doch nicht so übel ist, welche Bösewichte sie sonst noch m...
2023-09-2150 minLumos – der Harry-Potter-Podcast
Lumos – der Harry-Potter-PodcastFolge 1: Harry, Hermine & Ron aus dem Hamburger TheaterstückLumos, der Harry-Potter-Podcast des Hamburger Abendblatts, beleuchtet die Welt rund um den berühmten Zauberer. Vom globalen Phänomen bis hin zur engen Verbindung mit der Hansestadt. Moderatorin und Popkultur-Expertin Birgit Reuther taucht mit ihren Gästen tief ein in die literarische, filmische, theatrale und vor allem auch ganz persönliche Welt von Harry Potter. Den Anfang macht das magische Trio mit den Freunden Harry, Hermine und Ron – genauer gesagt mit deren Darstellenden aus der Hamburger Theaterproduktion "Harry Potter und das verwunschene Kind‟. Mehr als 500.000 Menschen haben das Stück bereits gesehen. Josef Ellers, seit August der neue Harry Potter, e...
2023-09-0743 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryToxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of DetroitDr. Josiah Rector explains that since the 1880s a confluence of unregulated industrial capitalism and racist practices in housing and employment in Detroit created pollution and environmental disasters disproportionately affecting the poor, working class, and particularly African Americans. He explores the resulting environmental justice movements in Detroit as residents have fought for clean air, water, and improved public health amid government and corporate divestment and Detroit’s 2013 bankruptcy. Rector is an assistant professor of urban, environmental, and labor history at the University of Houston and author of Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit. Related Resources
2023-06-1554 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library“No Labor Dictators For Us”: Revisiting Anti-Union Forces in the Flint Sit-Down StrikeWhile the 1936-1937 Flint Sit-Down is usually viewed as a pivotal success for the UAW, Dr. Gregory Wood considers more closely the influence of anti-union workers and the General Motors-supported Flint Alliance both during and after the strike. Wood is an associate professor and chair of the history department at Frostburg State University. His research will be featured in a forthcoming article in the Michigan Historical Review titled, “’No Labor Dictators for Us’: Anti-Union Workers During the Flint Sit-Down Strikes.” Related Collections: Henry Kraus Papers Flint Auto Worker Reuther Library Oral History Collections Relate...
2022-12-2223 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryHeard It On the News: Preserving 20th Century Detroit History Through Local NewscastsReuther Library audiovisual archivist Mary Wallace discusses the Library’s WWJ / WDIV Film, Video, and Teleprompter Scripts collection, which captures seven decades of news, current events, politics, and community life as reported by the Detroit news station from the 1920s through 1990s. Related Collections: WWJ / WDIV Film, Video, and Teleprompter Scripts Episode Credits Producers: … Continue reading Heard It On the News: Preserving 20th Century Detroit History Through Local Newscasts
2022-11-1731 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryA Miasma of Metals: The Steelworkers’ Environmental Call Following the Donora Smog of 1948Louise Milone recounts how smog produced by the southwestern Pennsylvanian steel industry poisoned the air in the Monongahela Valley town of Donora on November 1, 1948, killing more than 22 people and sickening thousands more. Exploring the response of the US Steel Corporation, employees, and Donora residents, Milone explains how the United Steelworkers of America union pushed for an investigation and improved environmental and health and safety regulations following the disaster. Milone is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Georgia Department of History. Related Collections: Olga Madar Papers Harvey O’Connor Papers UAW President’s Offi...
2022-09-0232 minCars and Comrades
Cars and ComradesWalter Reuther Part 7 with Turn LeftistPart seven (and the last) of our seven-part series on the life and work of Walter Reuther with the Turn Leftist podcast.Who was Walter Reuther and why might he be important to leftist car enthusiasts? Walter was a labor organizer who became the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as well as the Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO). Walter had a broad vision for what the labor movement could achieve for working people and he was at the forefront of the labor struggle throughout most of the 20th century. Walter was a Socialist, although he...
2022-06-012h 52Cars and Comrades
Cars and ComradesWalter Reuther Part 6 with Turn LeftistPart six of our seven-part series on the life and work of Walter Reuther with the Turn Leftist podcast.Who was Walter Reuther and why might he be important to leftist car enthusiasts? Walter was a labor organizer who became the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as well as the Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO).Walter had a broad vision for what the labor movement could achieve for working people and he was at the forefront of the labor struggle throughout most of the 20th century.Walter was a Socialist, although...
2022-04-222h 51Tales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryEnvironmental Activism in Deindustrialized DetroitBrandon Ward explains how Detroit residents, community organizations, and the labor movement, alarmed by the pollution remaining in Detroit’s deindustrialized era that mostly heavily impacted Black Americans and the working class, worked together from the 1970s onward to create a healthier, greener, and more livable city. Ward is a lecturer at Perimeter College at Georgia State University and author of Living Detroit: Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis. Donations to the Walter P. Reuther Library Endowment Fund are gratefully accepted to support this podcast and enhance access to the Reuther Library’s coll...
2022-04-1952 minCars and Comrades
Cars and ComradesWalter Reuther Part 5 with Turn LeftistPart five of our deep dive into the life and work of Walter Reuther with Turn Leftist.This episode mostly covers the 1950s and Reuther's rise to the top of the UAW and CIO, and his brokering of the AFL-CIO merger.Who was Walter Reuther and why might he be important to leftist car enthusiasts? Walter was a labor organizer who became the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as well as the Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO).Walter had a broad vision for what the labor movement could achieve...
2022-02-072h 30Cars and Comrades
Cars and ComradesWalter Reuther Part 4 with Turn LeftistPart four of our deep dive into the life and work of Walter Reuther with the Cars and Comrades.Who was Walter Reuther and why might he be important to leftist car enthusiasts? Walter was a labor organizer who became the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as well as the Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO). Walter had a broad vision for what the labor movement could achieve for working people and he was at the forefront of the labor struggle throughout most of the 20th century.Walter was a Socialist, although he was...
2022-01-152h 10Cars and Comrades
Cars and ComradesWalter Reuther Part 2 with Turn LeftistPart two of our deep dive into the life and work of Walter Reuther with the Turn Leftist podcast. Who was Walter Reuther and why might he be important to leftist car enthusiasts? Walter was a labor organizer who became the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as well as the Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO). Walter had a broad vision for what the labor movement could achieve for working people and he was at the forefront of the labor struggle throughout most of the 20th century. Walter was a Socialist, although he was very much against communism...
2022-01-022h 23Cars and Comrades
Cars and ComradesWalter Reuther Part 1 with the Turn Leftist PodcastWho was Walter Reuther and why might he be important to leftist car enthusiasts? Walter was a labor organizer who became the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as well as the Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO). Walter had a broad vision for what the labor movement could achieve for working people and he was at the forefront of the labor struggle throughout most of the 20th century. Walter was a Socialist, although he was very much against communism. In this deep dive, we take an honest look at both the successes and failures of Walter's approach to...
2022-01-022h 14Cars and Comrades
Cars and ComradesWalter Reuther Part 3 with Turn LeftistPart three of our deep dive into the life and work of Walter Reuther with the Turn Leftist podcast. Who was Walter Reuther and why might he be important to leftist car enthusiasts? Walter was a labor organizer who became the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as well as the Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO). Walter had a broad vision for what the labor movement could achieve for working people and he was at the forefront of the labor struggle throughout most of the 20th century. Walter was a Socialist, although he was very much against communism...
2021-12-291h 53Tales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryAnd Many More: Celebrating SEIU’s Centennial in the ArchivesReuther Library SEIU archivist Sarah Lebovitz shares highlights from the union’s first 100 years, and explains how its archives at the Reuther Library have supported labor organizing and centennial celebrations. Related Collections: SEIU District 925 Records SEIU Executive Office: George Hardy Records SEIU Executive Office: John Sweeney Records SEIU Executive Office: William McFetridge Records SEIU Historical Records SEIU Photographs SEIU Publications Related Resources: Blog: SEIU at Churchill Downs Blog: SEIU’s Justice for Janitors MOPSCAR Awards Blog: Notable Women of SEIU Podcast: SEIU: A Successful Unio...
2021-12-2039 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryCommunists and Community in Wartime DetroitDr. 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. Pettengill is a Professor of History at Collin College and author of Communists and Community: Activism in Detroit’s Labor Movement, 1941-1956. Related Collections: Don Binkowski Papers Nat Ganley and Saul Wellman Papers Maurice Sugar Papers Sam Sweet Papers Shelton Tappes Papers Edith Van Horn Papers UAW Fa...
2021-10-2956 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryMidnight in Vehicle City: Modern Lessons From the Flint Sit-Down StrikeEdward 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. McClelland is a journalist, historian, and author of Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Built the Middle Class. Related Collections: Flint Labor Records Genora and Sol Dollinger Papers Henry Kraus Papers Hy Fish Papers Joe Walton Papers Roy Reuther Oral History Victor G. Reuther Papers Wyndham Mortimer Papers Related Resources: Midnight in Vehicle Ci...
2021-08-1434 minKenFM: Tagesdosis
KenFM: TagesdosisProvozierend gesund | Von Gerd ReutherDen vollständigen Tagesdosis-Text (inkl. ggf. Quellenhinweisen und Links) findet ihr hier: https://kenfm.de/provozierend-gesund-von-gerd-reuther Das Corona-Geschehen erinnert an ein schon 100 Jahre altes Theaterstück, in dem Dorfbewohner um des Profits willen zu Kranken erklärt werden. Ein Kommentar vonGerd Reuther. Kunst und Kultur gehören zu den Opfern der Corona-Maßnahmen. Angriffe auf diesen Bereich der Gesellschaft sind vermutlich nicht bloß politische Nebenwirkungen, sondern bewusst beabsichtigt. Welches mahnende und aufklärerische Potenzial in der Kunst steckt, zeigt das Theaterstück „Knock oder der Triumph der Medizin“ von Jules Romains. Seit der Premiere 1923 antizipieren sämtliche Neuaufführungen genau die Situ...
2021-07-2709 minAurora Caeli - Weise Worte Weiterdenken
Aurora Caeli - Weise Worte Weiterdenken#19 Medizin als Geschäft - Im Gespräch mit Dr. Gerd ReutherIhr lieben Zuhörer, wir freuen uns diese Woche wieder, dass wir euch den Radiologen Dr. Gerd Reuther vorstellen dürfen. Der Buchautor verfasste viele medizinkritische Beiträge. Er erklärt, was Radiologie ist und wie er zur jetzigen kritischen Haltung fand. Wir haben mit unserem Gast über das Thema Medikalisierung und Immunitätswahn gesprochen. Dabei gab Herr Dr. Reuther uns Einblicke, wie für die Gesellschaft ein Teufelskreis der Medikamentenkarrieren, bedingt durch Pharma-Interessen und Geschäftemacherei mit der Gesundheit von Menschen, entsteht. Wir hoffen auf Mehrwert für euch und wünschen euch viel Spaß beim...
2021-07-2134 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryFrom Bargaining Table to Diplomatic Table: Leonard Woodcock in China (Part 2)After Leonard Woodcock stepped down as president of the UAW in 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter sent him to Beijing as a diplomatic envoy and ultimately as the nation’s first ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. In the second of a two-part interview, his wife Sharon Woodcock talks about Deng Xiaoping’s visit to the United States; Leonard Woodcock’s work after leaving the State Department, including his work on the Board of Governors of Wayne State University; and his support of the Reuther Library. UAW archivist Gavin Strassel discusses Leonard Woodcock’s archival collections at the Reuthe...
2021-05-2741 minKenFM: Standpunkte
KenFM: StandpunkteDer unterworfene Patient | Von Gerd ReutherEin Standpunkt von Gerd Reuther. Ärzte, Apotheker und die Pharmaindustrie wollten schon immer unser Bestes — unser Geld. Der Arzt und Bestsellerautor Dr. Gerd Reuther blickt kritisch auf 2.500 Jahre europäischer Medizingeschichte zurück und stellt fest, dass die sogenannte Schulmedizin schon immer nur für die Eliten systemrelevant war. Ob im antiken Griechenland oder in der Corona-Krise — unter dem Deckmantel vermeintlicher Wissenschaftlichkeit haben die Mediziner ihre Eigeninteressen stets über das Patientenwohl gestellt. Exklusivabdruck aus „Heilung Nebensache — Eine kritische Geschichte der europäischen Medizin von Hippokrates bis Corona“. Wer Hilfe sucht und sich in Obhut begibt, unterwirft sich zumindest für einen bestimmten...
2021-04-1411 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryIt’s Been a Year: Reuther Library Director Aliqae Geraci Recalls Her First Year on the Job During a Global PandemicAliqae Geraci explains that she had big plans when she became director of the Reuther Library a year ago, and those plans were immediately scuttled when her first day on the job coincided with the first day Wayne State University’s on-campus operations were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes how she and the Reuther pivoted in the past year to safely provide patrons virtual access to physical archival materials, and contemplates how the pandemic will and won’t change the Reuther’s services in the future. Geraci also shares how she became involved in labor libraries, and wh...
2021-03-1842 minKenFM: Standpunkte
KenFM: StandpunkteTödliche Virusangst | Von Gerd ReutherEs gibt keine Pandemie und keine biologische Bedrohung, sondern nur die Gefahr einer Diktatur im Namen des Profits.Ein Standpunkt von Gerd Reuther. Seuchen gehören zu den unwillkommenen Begleitern der Menschheit. Am Schrecken massenhafter Erkrankungen und Todesfälle in kurzer Zeit hat sich über die Jahrhunderte wenig geändert. Auch im Zeitalter von Antibiotika und Desinfektionsmitteln regiert nach Ausrufung einer Pandemie durch ein Coronavirus im Jahr 2020 die Angst. Ebenso wenig wie bei der ersten Pestepidemie im Jahr 1347 gibt es eine verlässliche Verhütung einer Ansteckung oder eine wirksame Behandlung bei Krankheit. Es bleiben: Quarantäne, Schutzk...
2020-12-0114 minKenFM: Tagesdosis
KenFM: TagesdosisSchluss mit lustig | Von Renate ReutherWarum nun gerade nicht Ruhe, sondern Feiern Bürgerpflicht ist. Ein Kommentar von Renate Reuther. Der neue Lockdown, ob nun leicht oder schwer, verhindert in der grauen Jahreszeit das bunte Feiern: vom Karneval bis zum Weihnachtsfest. Das Verbot des Miteinanders zu verschiedenen Anlässen zeigt, was die Regierenden von den regierten Bürgern wirklich halten: Sie reden von Eigenverantwortung und drohen jedem mit Strafe, der darunter etwas anderes als sie versteht. Eigentlich bietet die traditionelle Maskenzeit gute Möglichkeiten, den Herrschenden die Masken vom Gesicht zu reißen. Verzichten wir darauf, weil es uns nun von den Regierenden verboten wurde, zusam...
2020-11-1408 minGrateful Badass Podcast
Grateful Badass PodcastGB105: Women in Business: Kate Reuther- Uptown StoriesFor this week, we have a conversation with Founder, Kate Reuther of Uptown Stories. Listen in now and enjoy as we celebrate Women in Business. Kate’s (she/her/hers) bio…Kate is the founder and director of Uptown Stories with the mission of providing young writers the chance to discover and develop their inner voices. Over the past… Read More GB105: Women in Business: Kate Reuther- Uptown Stories
2020-10-1600 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryReading the Room: How César Chávez’s Early Life Prepared Him to LeadDr. Clay Walker explains how César Chávez’s lifeworld discourse – the language, culture, and experiences that shaped who he was and how he encountered and navigated the world – uniquely prepared him to lead the United Farm Workers and effectively communicate his message to a diverse audience. Dr. Walker is a senior lecturer in English and literacy studies at Wayne State University. Related Collections: UFW Office of the President: Cesar Chavez Records Sydney D. Smith Papers Related Resources: Clay Walker – “Lifeworld Discourse, Translingualism, and Agency in a Discourse Genealogy of César Chávez’s...
2020-08-2035 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryMechanical Engineer To Booth Babe and Back Again: The Tragicomic Career of Wayne State Engineering Alum Lucille PietiSociety of Women Engineers archivist Troy Eller English shares the tragicomic story of Lucille Pieti, 1950 mechanical engineering alum and Miss Wayne University. Sidelined in technical writing despite her degree and experience, Pieti found her career veering farther and farther away from engineering in the mid-1950s as her bosses at Chrysler capitalized on her beauty rather than her brains. Molded into a spokeswoman at auto shows and in Hollywood, and giving specs on the Dodge La Femme’s pink umbrella instead of its engine block, Pieti reclaimed her engineering identity by leaving Chrysler, and the country, in 1955. Re...
2020-07-3045 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library(Re)Introducing the Michigan Black History BibliographyReuther Library field archivist Dr. Louis Jones and former archives students and staff members Mattie Dugan and Allie Penn discuss the Reuther’s Michigan Black History Bibliography (MBHB) and the multi-year, student-led project to digitize a decades-old index card file. Meticulously compiled by Reuther librarian Roberta McBride in the 1970s, the MBHB cataloged well-known and obscure articles, theses, and other bibliographic sources about African American history in Michigan, including slavery in Detroit in the 1700s, Underground Railroad activity in the 1800s, the racism and discrimination Blacks faced in the 1900s, and African American community-building efforts throughout. Jones discusses the hi...
2020-07-0926 minMainathlet - Der Leichtathletik Podcast
Mainathlet - Der Leichtathletik PodcastEp.57 – Mit Marc Reuther - 800m-LäuferDer Mittelstreckenläufer wurde 2019 Deutscher Meister über die 800m.Mit Marc Reuther - 800m-LäuferMein Name ist Benjamin Brömme und Herzlich Willkommen zum Mainathlet Leichtathletik Podcast.Mein heutiger Gast ist der amtierende Deutsche Meister über die 800m Marc Reuther. Marc hat eine Freiluft Bestzeit von 1:45,22 min. Seine Hallenbestleistung von 1:45,39 min ist die zweitschnellste Zeit die je ein Deutscher in der Halle gelaufen ist.Wir haben uns im Interview u.a. über seine neue Trainingsgruppe, Taktik bei den 800m und auch darüber unterhalten welchen Anteil sein Sportpsychologe an den starken Leistungen des ver...
2020-06-2243 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryThis Union Cause: The Queer History of the United Automobile WorkersWayne State history PhD candidate James McQuaid discusses his research on the gradual cognizance and acceptance of queer autoworkers in the twentieth century, leading toward the UAW’s rapid embrace of LGBTQ-friendly policies and initiatives in the 1990s. He shares compelling stories of several queer auto workers, including: Billie Hill discovering a lesbian enclave in a Highland Park plant in the 1940s; Gary Kapanowski winning a 1973 union election despite being aggressively outed by a rival the day before; Joni Christian, a transgender woman whose union leadership at the GM Lordstown saved her job after returning to work following sexual re...
2020-06-181h 01The Detroit History Podcast
The Detroit History PodcastSeason 3, Episode 4- They Sat Down and Rocked The Boat: Walter Reuther's Blue-Collar RevolutionHe came to Detroit as a high-school dropout raised in hardscrabble West Virginia. The career arc that followed -- from diemaker at Henry Ford's Ford Rouge Plant to confidant of American presidents -- marks Walter Reuther as a singular figure in in the U.S. labor movement. His vision of power-sharing and social progressivism drew the template for a blue-collar middle class. Even as technology has shrunk the workforce, and corruption allegations have stained a later generation of leaders, Reuther's place in American history is assured. This week's Detroit History Podcast traces the Reuther saga from his first days...
2020-06-1530 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryRace and Rebellion: Reexamining the Unlearned Lessons of the Kerner Report a Half Century LaterReuther Library outreach archivist Meghan Courtney discusses the conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Commission report in the context of today’s protests over race relations and police brutality. Following infamous rebellions in Detroit and Newark in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, chaired by Illinois governor Otto Kerner, to identify the root causes of urban racial unrest and prevent further violence in American cities. In its final report, the Commission placed the ultimate blame for so-called riots on lack of educational and economic opportunity for African Americans, ingrained institutional and societal racism, and militarized po...
2020-06-0921 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryDon’t Buy Where You Can’t Work: Black-Owned Businesses and the Housewives League of DetroitAllie Penn explains how her work on a grant-funded digitization project introduced her to the Housewives League of Detroit and led to a digital humanities project mapping Detroit Black-owned businesses from the 1930s through 1950s. Espousing the informal motto, “Don’t buy where you can’t work,” the Housewives League of Detroit was founded in 1930 by Fannie Peck to unite and empower Black housewives in the city while also strengthening the economic base of the Black community. An offshoot of her work on the Housewives League of Detroit collection, Penn has been mapping 1930s through 1950s Black-owned businesses, as advertis...
2020-05-2123 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryCreating that “A-Ha!” Moment: Using Archives and Primary Sources to Inspire Active Learning in the ClassroomOutreach archivist Meghan Courtney discusses the Reuther Library’s efforts to extend primary source instruction beyond history classes to inspire active learning in the classroom and empower students to become part of scholarly conversations. Through the Reuther’s innovative Archives and Primary Resource Education Lab (APREL), Wayne State economics students have studied Detroit-area public food programs to understand the intersection of economics and public health. Law students have examined police reports, eye-witness accounts, and contemporary reporting to weigh the evidence and draw their own conclusions about Detroit’s infamous 1969 New Bethel Incident. And K-12 teachers have learned how to integr...
2020-04-3028 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryPoorly Described Folders and Human Hair: Processing Report with ALUA Archivist Shae RaffertyShae Rafferty, the Reuther Library’s Labor and Urban Affairs Archivist, explains what happens behind the scenes to get donated collections ready for researchers. She discusses how collections are prioritized for processing, or organizing and describing them to make it easier for researchers to find the information they’re looking for. Rafferty describes some of the memorable things she has found in the collections she has processed, both pleasant (scrapbooks made by friends and Detroit theater ushers in the early 1900s) and unpleasant (human hair). She also recalls finding a deeply important but largely forgotten log of 1940s racial inci...
2020-04-1614 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryA Double Agent, A Conservative Affirmative Actionist, and A Black Nationalist Walk Into an Archive...: Field Report with Archivist Louis JonesAfter a brief hiatus we’re back! Reuther Library Field Archivist Louis Jones discusses fascinating collections recently opened at the Reuther Library. William Gernaey was hired by Chrysler and Ford in the 1930s and 1940s to infiltrate the Community Party in Michigan, which in turn hired him to spy on local unions. Ramon S. Scruggs, Sr. became the first African American manager at Michigan Bell Telephone Company in 1939, and later at AT&T, and although a conservative he advocated for affirmative action policies to raise opportunities for all African Americans. In 1965 Edward Vaughn opened the nation’s second black book...
2020-03-2423 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryUncovering Detroit Sound: Sippie Wallace and Son House in the Folklore ArchivesArchivist Bart Bealmear explains how he rediscovered recordings of famed African American blues musicians Sippie Wallace and Son House buried in the Reuther Library’s Folklore Archives. One of the most famous female blues vocalists in the 1920s, Sippie Wallace left the blues stage for four decades, choosing instead to sing and play the organ at Leland Baptist Church in Detroit. The recording Bealmear uncovered in the Folklore Archives captures Wallace demoing T.B. Blues in her living room in 1965, prior to her professional comeback in 1966. Bealmear also shares a clip from an April 18, 1965 WDTM interview with American Delta bl...
2020-01-0222 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryHidden in the Fields: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of CitizenshipIvón Padilla-Rodríguez explains how labor laws helped define the modern boundaries of childhood and citizenship for both internationally and domestically migrant Latinx children working on American farms. Despite the child labor ban supposedly implemented in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act and later laws, legal loopholes have allowed migrant Latinx children to continue to work on American farms today and have limited their access to education. Padilla-Rodríguez explains how advocates fought to enact social welfare initiatives for farmworking children along their migratory route, while teachers and women UFW organizers pursued legislative channels to try to...
2019-12-0631 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryPunishing Promise: School Discipline in the Era of DesegregationMatt Kautz explains how his observations while teaching in Detroit and Chicago led him to study the rise of suspensions and other disciplinary tactics in urban districts during school desegregation, fueling the school-to-prison pipeline. His research has focused particularly on Boston, Detroit, and Louisville during court-ordered desegregation, for which there is ample documentation of school disciplinary codes, statistics on usage against students, and responses from administrators, teachers, law enforcement, and the community. Kautz is a Ph.D. candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University Related Collections AFT Local 231: Detroit Federation of Teachers Records Detroit Commission on...
2019-10-1723 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryImmigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir of Wobbly Organizer Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins (Part 2)In the second of a two-episode series, artist Robbin Légère Henderson discusses the life of her grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins, a Socialist, IWW organizer, feminist, writer, mother, and social worker. Henderson shares stories from Robbins’ autobiography, Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century, explaining how the optimism of a 13-year-old immigrant from the Ukraine was soon undone by the realities of working in garment sweatshops on the East Coast, leading to Matilda Robbins’ brief but influential role as labor organizer for the International Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917. Related Resources ...
2019-09-1927 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryImmigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir of Wobbly Organizer Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins (Part 1)In the first of a two-episode series, artist Robbin Légère Henderson discusses her exhibition of original scratchboard drawings featured in the illustrated and annotated autobiography of Henderson’s grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins, a Socialist, IWW organizer, feminist, writer, mother, and social worker. Henderson shares stories from Robbins’ autobiography, Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century, explaining how the optimism of a 13-year-old immigrant from the Ukraine was soon undone by the realities of working in garment sweatshops on the East Coast, leading to Matilda Robbins’ brief but influential role as labor organizer for the Inte...
2019-09-1924 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library“You Do It and You Teach It”: 90 Years of Dance at Wayne StateEva Powers, recently retired associate professor and former chair of the Maggie Allesee Department of Dance, share the fascinating history and bright future of the modern dance program at Wayne State University. One of the longest-running dance programs in the country, it traces its origins to the Dance Workshop, founded in 1928 by Professor Ruth Lovell Murray. A pioneer in dance education, Murray’s philosophy, “You do it and you teach it,” was evidenced by the Dance Workshop’s influence on a robust dance program within the Detroit Public Schools well into the 1970s. Powers also describes the bright future of the d...
2019-09-0534 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryLabor Feminism in the Federated Press, 1930s through 1950sDr. Victoria Grieve shares the lives of five pioneering female journalists of the Federated Press, a labor news service operating from the 1930s through the 1950s. In addition to their work for the Federated Press, Julia Ruuttila, Jessie Lloyd O’Connor, Virginia Gardner, and Miriam Kolkin also participated in leftist social and political movements, forming an important network that linked labor journalism with labor feminism and other political issues. Although not central to her current project, Grieve also discusses another famed journalist for the Federated Press, Betty Friedan. Grieve is an associate professor of history at Utah State University....
2019-08-1531 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryRise Up Detroit: Stories from the African American Struggle for PowerDr. Peter Blackmer discusses the launch of Rise Up Detroit (www.riseupdetroit.org), a website documenting the stories of activists in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in Detroit. The website uses extensive oral history interviews and extensive archival resources from the Walter P. Reuther Library and other archives in the region to teach audiences of all ages about social justice issues through the history of the African American struggle for power. Rise Up Detroit is the second website created as part of “The North: Civil Rights and Beyond in Urban America,” an online educational tool conceived of and...
2019-07-2529 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryHooked On The Line: Addiction and the North American Workplace, 1965-1995 (Part 2)This is the second of a two-part interview with Dr. Jeremy Milloy about his forthcoming book, “Hooked On The Line: Addiction and the North American Workplace, 1965-95,” which explores the evolution of alcohol and drug addiction interventions in the workplace in the latter half of the 20th century. In this episode, Milloy considers workplace addiction interventions as a continuation of the encroachment of employers into employees’ private lives. Milloy describes the Reagan administration’s addiction intervention policies in the heavily federally-regulated railroad industry in the 1980s, and across industries the evolution from rehabilitative workplace addiction interventions to more punitive workplac...
2019-07-0525 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryHooked On The Line: Addiction and the North American Workplace, 1965-1995 (Part 1)This is the first of a two-part interview with Dr. Jeremy Milloy about his forthcoming book, “Hooked On The Line: Addiction and the North American Workplace, 1965-95,” which explores the evolution of alcohol and drug addiction interventions in the workplace in the latter half of the 20th century. In this episode, Milloy explores the early days of addiction intervention in the workplace through programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous, and then delves into an experimental, grant-funded UAW program in the 1970s called CHIP – Curb Heroin in Plants. An employee-led initiative, CHIP sought to treat heroin dependence in autoworkers through a combin...
2019-07-0325 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryThe Southern Airways Strike of 1960: ALPA’s Epic Battle Over Fair Pilot WagesAir Line Pilots Association archivist Bart Bealmear shares the history of ALPA’s shrewd 1960 strike against regional carrier Southern Airways over pilot wages. The strike began on June 5, 1960 and launched a costly two-year legal and tactical battle in which ALPA created its own competitor airline, Southern hired poorly-qualified scab pilots funded partially by the government, and the union strategically appealed a ruling in its own favor to preempt and scuttle Southern’s appeal. The founder and president of Southern Airways, Frank Hulse, finally capitulated in September 1962 when an investor in the airline threatened to sell a controlling stake to ALPA...
2019-06-0416 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library“Our Mothers Were the Shining Stars:” Perspectives on the Founders of the Society of Women Engineers, From a Daughter Who Grew Up Among ThemAlexis Jetter discusses her long-running project, a memoir unraveling the life and death of her mother Evelyn Jetter, a physicist, engineer, and in 1950 a founder of the Society of Women Engineers. After writing a master’s thesis and article in the 1980s that explored whether her mother’s death at age 52 was caused by her work with radiation at the Atomic Energy Commission and other companies — from the 1940s through 1970s — Alexis felt a growing desire to better understand Evelyn’s career in relation to her private life. Alexis describes her experience growing up in mid-century America among the founding me...
2019-05-1631 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryFrom the Vault: Metalsmith and Professor Phillip Fike and the Wayne State Academic MaceIn anticipation of the upcoming Wayne State University graduation ceremonies, University Art Curator Grace Serra and University Archivist Alison Stankrauff share the history of the university’s academic mace, a ceremonial and symbolic object carried during commencement exercises and other important events. The first mace, commissioned in the 1950s, has been lost to the ages. A second mace was created specifically for the university’s 1968 centennial. The third mace, currently in use, was crafted in 1984 by famed metalsmith and Wayne State professor Phillip Fike using ebony wood, bronze, and steel. As Serra and Stankrauff discovered during a visit to the...
2019-04-2513 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library“Taxing Limits: The Political Economy of American School Finance”Kelly Goodman speaks about the political history of funding education through local and state taxes. Having worked as a data analyst for the Detroit public schools, Goodman pursued graduate school to explore the structural issues surrounding questions she often found herself asking: why are some schools perceived to be bad? Why do some schools receive less funding than others? How does the economy work, and for whom? To answer those questions, Goodman’s research for her dissertation, “Taxing Limits: The Political Economy of American School Finance,” reorients political history around enduring tensions between the control of decisions and th...
2019-04-1129 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryReevaluating Comparable Worth: AFSCME’s Pay Equity Campaigns of Yesteryear and TodayIn celebration of Equal Pay Day on April 2, 2019, podcast host and American Federation of Teachers archivist Dan Golodner recounts a time 100 years ago when male teachers tried, and failed, to prevent female teachers from bargaining for pay equity with their male peers. AFSCME archivist Stefanie Caloia discusses AFSCME’s groundbreaking equal pay campaigns for public employees in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Local 101 in San Jose, California and Council 28 in Washington state. To alleviate the large pay disparities between male and female public employees, the “comparable worth” of jobs typically held by men and jobs typically held by women...
2019-03-2824 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryDocumenting the Now: SEIU Archivist Sarah Lebovitz on Using Archives to Empower the FutureSEIU archivist Sarah Lebovitz explains how her background in anthropology informs her work as an archivist, preserving and revealing the experiences of underrepresented groups. She recounts successful SEIU actions including the implementation of needlestick protocol for healthcare workers and the organization of women office workers in SEIU District 925, which served as inspiration for the classic 1980 film 9 to 5, starring Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda (whose oral history about the movement is available at the Reuther Library). Lebovitz describes the challenges and opportunities of archiving social media and digital content, and making archives more accessible and interactive for researchers...
2019-03-0724 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library“She Never Gave Up on This City:” Remembering Firebrand Detroit City Councilwoman Maryann MahaffeyLabor and Urban Affairs archivist Shae Rafferty shares how Maryann Mahaffey’s college summer job as recreation director at the Poston Japanese internment camp in Arizona in 1945 strengthened her resolve to fight against discrimination and help those in need later in her career in social work. In Detroit, Mahaffey created a tenants’ council while program director at Detroit’s Brightmoor Community Center in the 1960s, and established the Detroit Mayor’s Task Force on Malnutrition and Hunger while also teaching in the School of Social Work at Wayne State University. Although she lost her first campaign for public office in 1970...
2019-02-1419 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryDirty Socks, Goose Fat, and Hot Toddies: Cold Remedies from the Folklore ArchiveReuther Library archivists Elizabeth Clemens and Dan Golodner raise a glass for the regional and ethnic cold remedies collected in the Reuther’s extensive Folklore Archive, including whiskey, honey, lemon, hot toddies, goose fat poultices, the color red, horehound, catnip tea, dirty socks, and the more dangerous turpentine and kerosene — don’t try those at home! Clemens explores why the informants interviewed resorted to folklore remedies, why we still use them today, and why a few of these remedies just might work. Related Collections Folklore Archive Episode Credits Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller...
2019-01-2429 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library“Long Memory is the Most Radical Idea in America:” Field Report from Reuther Collections Gatherer Louis JonesDr. Louis Jones discusses his work in building relationships to bring records into the Reuther Library documenting the American labor movement, civil rights, and the history of metropolitan Detroit. He explains how he brought three recent acquisitions into the Reuther Library: the papers of labor activist and folk singer Utah Phillips; the business records of civil rights organization NAACP Detroit; and the records of LGBT Detroit, an organization working to support and advocate for Detroit’s LGBT community. Jones is the field archivist for the Walter P. Reuther Library, and received a Ph.D. in history from Wayne State Un...
2019-01-0325 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library“Democracy is Sweeping Over the World:” Brookwood Labor College at the Nexus of Transnational Radicalism in the Jazz AgeWhile the 1920s are often described as “lean years” of progressive action, Andreas Meyris explains how the Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York served as a conduit for transnational radicalism in the 1920s while also training labor journalists and up-and-coming labor leaders like Walter Reuther and Rose Pesotta, setting the stage for the explosion of industrial unionism during the 1930s. Meyris is a PhD candidate at the George Washington University, specializing in American labor and political history. He received a Sam Fishman Travel Grant in 2018 to examine the Brookwood Labor College Records at the Reuther Library in s...
2018-12-1332 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryThe First Noel (Night): How the Public Found Its Detroit Adventure in Noel Night, The City’s Festive Cultural Open HouseOutreach archivist Meghan Courtney traces the evolution of Detroit Adventure, a coalition of cultural organizations founded in 1958 to promote cultural conversations and experiences in metropolitan Detroit. In 1973 the organization debuted Noel Night, a free holiday open house in Detroit’s cultural center. Now run by Midtown Detroit, Inc., Noel Night features: performances and family activities at Detroit’s midtown museums, churches, and venues; holiday shopping; food; horse-drawn carriage rides; and more. Courtney offers a sneak preview of the Reuther Library’s contributions to the 46th Noel Night on December 1, 2018: live labor- and holiday-themed music from our talented University Library System...
2018-11-2219 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibrarySpeak to the Earth and it Shall Teach Thee: Catholic Nuns, the United Farm Workers Movement, and the Rise of an Environmental Ethic, 1962-1978John Buchkoski explores the role that religious women had in grassroots social activism in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly organizations of Catholic women religious. He explains how these groups supported United Farm Worker strikes by publicizing the environmental and health effects of pesticide use and popularizing produce boycotts across Catholic communities. Buchkoski is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oklahoma. Related Collections Reverend James Drake Papers Reverend Victor P. Salandini Papers National Farm Worker Ministry Records Michigan Farm Worker Ministry Coalition Records UFW Illinois Boycott: Chicago Office Records UFW...
2018-11-0823 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryHalloween Spooktacular: Supernatural Stories from Detroit FolkloreArchivist Elizabeth Clemens shares spooky stories from the Reuther Library’s Folklore Archives about Le Loup Garou, or the Werewolf of Grosse Pointe; the Ghost of Tanglewood Bridge on Detroit’s Belle Isle; hauntings at home; and a helpful witch on Detroit’s McClellan Street who fetched groceries and hung her skin on the wall. Archivist Bart Bealmear reminds us of Gundella the Green Witch, a local personality with an advice column in Detroit-area newspapers in the 1970s and 1980s. More Information Folklore Fridays: Halloween Edition Gundella, The Green Witch of Detroit Explains How to...
2018-10-2529 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryInternational Architect Minoru Yamasaki’s Impact on the Wayne State CampusReuther Library archivist Shae Rafferty discusses the career of Minoru Yamasaki, renown architect of the original World Trade Center, the Dhahran International Airport in Saudi Arabia, and many buildings in the metropolitan Detroit area. University archivist Alison Stankrauff shares the history and design of four Yamasaki buildings on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit. Related Collections: Minoru Yamasaki Papers Wayne State University Office of the President Clarence B. Hilberry Records Wayne State University Office of the President William Rea Keast Records Wayne State University College of Education...
2018-10-0423 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther Library1933 Chicago Teachers Walkout: That Time Teachers Rioted With Textbooks and RulersAmerican Federation of Teachers archivist Dan Golodner tells guest host Bart Bealmear about the 1933 Chicago Teachers Walkout, when Chicago teachers joined together to demand that they be paid in actual money and on time, rather than in scrip that wasn’t honored by local businesses and banks during the Great Depression. Paid only nine times in four years because property taxes meant to fund Chicago schools were withheld by corrupt businesses, banks, and school board members, students and teachers staged public demonstrations on the streets and in bank lobbies, ultimately shaming the banks into releasing school funds and the sc...
2018-09-1328 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryAssembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 2In the second of a two-part series, Dr. Kristin M. Szylvian explains how racial segregation and the fear of declining property values ultimately scuttled Operation Breakthrough, a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Program early in the Nixon administration to use union-made manufactured housing to create racially- and economically-integrated housing communities throughout the country. She argues that Walter Reuther and programs like Operation Breakthrough, despite its collapse, have shown that non-profit and cooperative housing can be used to create home security in disadvantaged communities, especially in the lingering wake of the home finance crisis of 2007.  
2018-08-2328 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryAssembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 1In the first of a two-part series, Dr. Kristin Szylvian explains the role of the American labor movement, and UAW president Walter Reuther in particular, in lobbying for and shaping fair housing programs and legislation in Detroit and nationally after the Second World War. That influence paved the way for an unlikely alliance in the 1960s between Reuther and George Romney, the former Republican governor of Michigan, when they joined together in the late 1960s to launch Operation Breakthrough, a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program to use union-made manufactured housing to alleviate the housing crisis...
2018-08-0928 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryI Am A Man: Photographer Richard Copley Recalls His First Assignment, 50 Years After the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ StrikeAFSCME archivist Stefanie Caloia shares photographer Richard Copley’s story of his very first and what he considers his most important assignment covering the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike and, ultimately, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and memorial march. Related Collections AFSCME Local 1733 Records AFSCME Office of the President: Jerry Wurf Records 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike Image Gallery Episode Credits Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English Host: Dan Golodner Interviewee: Stefanie Caloia, excerpts from Richard Copley Sound: Troy Eller English ...
2018-07-2617 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryJessica Levy on “Black Power, Inc.: Global American Business and the Post-Apartheid City”Jessica Levy explains how American corporations and black entrepreneurs worked together to forge a new politics linking American business with black liberation at home and abroad, focusing particularly on Leon Howard Sullivan, a civil rights leader and board member of General Motors who used his position to influence American corporate anti-apartheid actions. Levy is a PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Related Collections AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Bill Lucy Records UAW Presidents Office: Owen Bieber Records Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Records ...
2018-07-1127 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryAmerican Labor’s Anti-Apartheid Movement and Nelson Mandela’s 1990 U.S. TourMeghan Courtney, Reuther Library archivist, discusses Nelson Mandela’s 1990 visit to the U.S. as well as his long-term relationship with the American Labor Movement during his time in prison and after his release. Mandela’s 12 day, 8 city fundraising tour in June 1990 took place just months after his release from 27 years in a South African prison and included visits to the AFL-CIO, AFSCME’s convention, UAW Local 600 and Tiger Stadium. Courtney explores Mandela’s philosophical alignment with the labor movement, labor’s support for anti-apartheid efforts in the U.S., and archival collections at the Reuther Library where rese...
2018-06-2832 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryJulia Gunn on Civil Rights Anti-Unionism: Charlotte and the Remaking of Anti-Labor Politics in the Modern SouthDr. Julia Gunn explains how progressive civil rights politics enabled Charlotte, North Carolina, to become the nation’s second-largest largest financial capital while obscuring its intransigence towards working-class protest, including public sector sanitation workers, bus drivers, firefighters, and domestic workers. Gunn is a Critical Writing Fellow in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Gunn’s research visit was supported through a Sam Fishman Travel Grant, which provides up to $1,000 for scholars to support travel to Detroit to access archival records of the American labor movement in the Reuther Library. The award is named in honor of Sam Fish...
2018-06-1426 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryDawn Mabalon on UFW labor organizer Larry Itliong – Part 2In part 2 of our interview with Dawn Mabalon, she explains how her personal and familial interests influenced her research on the life and work of United Farm Workers labor organizer Larry Itliong, as well as her forthcoming children’s book, Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong. Dr. Mabalon is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University and a co-founder of the the Little Manila Foundation, which “advocates for the historic preservation of the Little Manila Historic Site in Stockton, California and provides education and leadership to revitalize our Filipina/o American community.” Her research draws...
2018-05-3119 minTales from the Reuther Library
Tales from the Reuther LibraryDawn Mabalon on UFW labor organizer Larry Itliong – Part 1In this inaugural episode of Tales from the Reuther Library, Dawn Mabalon, an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University, shares her research on the life and work of Larry Itliong, a Filipino leader of California’s farm labor movement. She explains to Reuther archivist Dan Golodner the relationship between Filipino and Mexican farm workers, reframing this struggle in multi-ethnic and multi-generational contexts to be more inclusive of radical Filipino American perspectives. Her research draws heavily on the personal papers of Larry Itliong, as well as records from other farm labor leaders found in the United Farm Workers collections at...
2018-05-2137 minFeel Into A Immersive Full Audiobook On The Go.
Feel Into A Immersive Full Audiobook On The Go.[German] - Der betrogene Patient: Ein Arzt deckt auf, warum Ihr Leben in Gefahr ist, wenn Sie sich medizinisch behandeln lassen by Gerd ReutherPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/467493to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der betrogene Patient: Ein Arzt deckt auf, warum Ihr Leben in Gefahr ist, wenn Sie sich medizinisch behandeln lassen Author: Gerd Reuther Narrator: Gerd Reuther Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 22, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Nie waren die Heilungsversprechen größer als heute und doch ist die ärztliche Behandlung zu unserer häufigsten Todesursache geworden. Wer den Therapieempfehlungen der Mediziner rückhaltlos vertraut, schadet sich häufiger, als er sich nützt. Erschreckend viele Behandlungen sind ohne nachgewiesene Wirksamkeit und oft wäre da...
2018-01-226h 45Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics[German] - Der betrogene Patient: Ein Arzt deckt auf, warum Ihr Leben in Gefahr ist, wenn Sie sich medizinisch behandeln lassen by Gerd ReutherPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/467493to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der betrogene Patient: Ein Arzt deckt auf, warum Ihr Leben in Gefahr ist, wenn Sie sich medizinisch behandeln lassen Author: Gerd Reuther Narrator: Gerd Reuther Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 22, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Nie waren die Heilungsversprechen größer als heute und doch ist die ärztliche Behandlung zu unserer häufigsten Todesursache geworden. Wer den Therapieempfehlungen der Mediziner rückhaltlos vertraut, schadet sich häufiger, als er sich nützt. Erschreckend viele Behandlungen sind ohne nachgewiesene Wirksamkeit und oft wäre da...
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