by Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University
Stories on labor history, Detroit, and Wayne State University
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April 17, 2025
Dr. Justine Modica discusses the Worthy Wages movement centered in Seattle from the 1980s through the 2000s. Affiliated with SEIU, daycare directors and childcare workers in childcare centers and home-based daycares joined together to raise public awareness of the underfunding of daycare and lobby for increased state childcare subsidies, hoping to increase the wages and retention of skilled workers in a lowly-paid but critical field.<br /> Modica is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in History at Cornell University. She authored the article, “Worthy Wages in the Emerald City: Worker- and Director-Led Childcare Movements in Seattle, 1984–2006,” and is writing a book examining how the government, employers, and families have shaped childcare as wage labor.<br /> Related Resources:<br /> <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor/article/21/2/39/387867/Worthy-Wages-in-the-Emerald-City-Worker-and">“Worthy Wages in the Emerald City: Worker- and Director-Led Childcare Movements in Seattle, 1984–2006”</a><br /> Related Collections:<br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/377">Center for the Child Care Workforce Records</a><br /> Episode Credits<br /> Interviewee: Justine Modica<br /> Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English<br /> Music: Bart Bealmear<br />
February 20, 2025
Dr. 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..<br /> Related Resources:<br /> <a href=" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679860/awaiting-their-feast/">Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19</a><br /> Related Collections:<br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/1828"> UFW New York Boycott Records</a><br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/287">UFW Massachusetts Boycott: Boston Office Records</a><br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/1818">UFW New Jersey Boycott: Jersey City Office Records</a><br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/326">UFW Maryland Boycott Records</a><br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/3421">UFW Administration Department Records</a><br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/1805">UFW Boycott Central Records </a><br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/1476">UFW Central Administration Records</a><br /> <a href="https://archives.wayne.edu/agents/corporate_entities/2452">Other United Farm Workers collections at the Reuther</a><br /> Episode Credits<br /> Interviewee: Lori Flores<br /> Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English<br /> Music: Bart Bealmear<br />
January 16, 2025
Dr. Harris Dousemetzis, a lecturer at the University of Sunderland and author, shares the pivotal role of President Jimmy Carter in advancing gay rights through policy and funding, despite fierce backlash from Evangelicals.
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