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Historian Gabe Christy and musician Young Sam James explore the who, what, when, where, and whys of the labor movement of Philadelphia and the surrounding world.

Everything is This is unapologetically a Joseph Marie Jacquard hate account.
07/23/2025

Everything is

This is unapologetically a Joseph Marie Jacquard hate account.

By 1941, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) had led successful union drives across most of the US Steel indus...
07/22/2025

By 1941, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) had led successful union drives across most of the US Steel industry. But can they break into Bethlehem Steel when $1 billion in defense contracts are hanging in the balance?

Check out our lastest episode re-release all about the 1941 Bethlehem Steel Strike!

Episode 40 originally aired on December 26, 2022.

www.laborjawn.com

1: Cover art
2: A car on its side during the Bethlehem Steel riots in 1941
(Courtesy of Bethlehem Area Public Library)
3: Pickets at main gate of Bethlehem Steel Plant (Courtesy of the Morning Call)
4: Pickets out front of steel plant
5: Strikers outside the main gates of the steel plant
6: SWOC members handing out coffee to strikers
7: Group of men on a street corner, looking at a man vandalizing an overturned vehicle during the Bethlehem Steel riots in 1941
8: The Bethlehem Steel railyards, with a number of overturned vehicles in the background
9: Kids playing on an overturned vehicle

On July 3rd, a drunk driver drove into an AFSCME DC33 picket line and hit sanitation worker Tyree Ford. Tyree was able t...
07/17/2025

On July 3rd, a drunk driver drove into an AFSCME DC33 picket line and hit sanitation worker Tyree Ford. Tyree was able to push his pregnant fiancee out of the way but it left him in critical condition. A GoFundMe has been set up by his sister. Please consider donating to help relieve some of the family's financial burden.

https://gofund.me/950572ab

For Gabe's birthday, he got ME my very own copy of the Little Red Songbook, the bible of any solidarity-loving musician....
07/17/2025

For Gabe's birthday, he got ME my very own copy of the Little Red Songbook, the bible of any solidarity-loving musician.
-Sam

has arrived! Just got our shipment from the pop-up merch shop. Excited to wear these around town and hopefully not on...
07/14/2025

has arrived! Just got our shipment from the pop-up merch shop.

Excited to wear these around town and hopefully not on a picketline because everyone's gonna get a fair contract with good pay, workplace safety, and benefits RIGHT???? (Looking at you, every museum management team in the city)

(Also, our apologies, next time yall do a merch run, we'll get a full set of every Philly CWU hat)

Happy Birthday, Woody!Folk singer Woody Guthrie was born on this day in 1912 in Oklahoma. He spent much of his life trav...
07/14/2025

Happy Birthday, Woody!

Folk singer Woody Guthrie was born on this day in 1912 in Oklahoma. He spent much of his life traveling around the country, learning more about working people, and putting their struggles into song.

"All you can write is what you see." - W.G.

Fun Philly fact: Guthrie's first and most successful album, Dust Bowl Ballads, was recorded in Camden, NJ in 1940 for Victor Records.

There's nothing like Philly solidarity. In story, song, and reality.
07/10/2025

There's nothing like Philly solidarity. In story, song, and reality.

On June 21, 2025, in collaboration with the Philly Liberation Center and NSCAN (Norris Square Community Action Network),...
07/07/2025

On June 21, 2025, in collaboration with the Philly Liberation Center and NSCAN (Norris Square Community Action Network), we presented a brief but thorough history of the many labor struggles in Kensington.

Check out our live recording of the event on your local streaming service or at www.laborjawn.com!

Thank you to Philly Liberation Center and to all those in attendance for their hospitality and eagerness to learn more about our collective working class history.

We stand with AFSCME DC 33.It was a pleasure and a treat to be able to share some music and history with the workers of ...
07/05/2025

We stand with AFSCME DC 33.

It was a pleasure and a treat to be able to share some music and history with the workers of AFSCME DC33 and their supporters (which is essentially the whole city sans its mayor).

The sun is hot, but the soliDOGarity is hotter. Keep the pressure up till gets a fair contract.
07/04/2025

The sun is hot, but the soliDOGarity is hotter.

Keep the pressure up till gets a fair contract.

LL Cool Jawn
07/04/2025

LL Cool Jawn

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