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Interchange – Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:02 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World. That steel mill is the Gary Works of US Steel which was …

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Interchange: Unmade in America: The Wages of Factory Work

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 45.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTaking a close, insider’s, look at Chicago’s industrial Southeast Side in the 1970’s and early 1980’s offers us lessons of a period brought forward to our current moment, when talking heads and politicians spout off about middle class values and middle class jobs and the way to …

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