Episodes

  • Labor Jawn: In Story & Song
    Dec 24 2025

    On November 18, 2022, Labor Jawn hosted their first live show In Story and Song at the Philadelphia Folksong Society.

    Join the hosts of the Labor Jawn podcast in celebrating the labor movement through song and story. Relive the struggles and victories of the working class with historian Gabe Christy as musician Young Sam James leads you and a few special guests in the anthems and ballads that defined an entire movement.

    Guests are Pie-Eyed Preachers, Bevan Dayn, and Molly Hebert-Wilson.

    Intro: 00:00
    Hard Travelin': 4:40
    Paddy On The Railway: 9:54
    Good Morning Blues (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 14:51
    Preacher And The Slave: 20:11
    Factory Girl: 27:16
    Nine To Five: 34:18
    Too Old To Work: 38:39
    No More: 45:53
    Trust No One (Bevan Dayn): 50:20
    There Is Power In A Union (Bevan Dayn): 53:31
    Building Up And Tearing It All Down (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 58:36
    (Sam breaks a string): 1:02:20
    Hot Asphalt (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 1:04:26
    Dirty Old Town (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 1:09:45
    Come Out Ye Black And Tans (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 1:15:20
    Radium (Molly Hebert-Wilson): 1:19:36
    Paradise: 1:27:52
    They're Moving Father's Grave: 1:34:00
    Barnyards Of Delgaty: 1:36:57
    Tip Your Waitress: 1:41:34
    Solidarity Forever (feat. Molly Hebert-Wilson): 1:44:41
    We Shall Not Be Moved: 1:49:10

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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • Greater Philadelphia Volumes - Interview with Dr. Francis Ryan
    Dec 8 2025

    Sam and Gabe sit down to chat with Dr. Francis Ryan, Associate Teaching Professor & Director of Master of Labor and Employment Relations Program, Labor Studies and Employment Relations (LSER) at Rutgers University, to discuss Philadelphia's importance in labor history, and his contributions to the three volume set The Greater Philadelphia Region, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation, and Greater Philadelphia and the World from University of Pennsylvania Press.

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    49 mins
  • Feeding the Army of Labor - Interview with the Starbucks Strike Kitchen
    Nov 20 2025

    Sam and Gabe sit down to chat with Megan and Claudia of Starbucks Workers United and Sophie of the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America who established a strike kitchen to feed and support Starbucks workers as they fight for a first contract.

    Sign the pledge: https://www.nocontractnocoffee.com/

    More links: https://linktr.ee/phillyDSAlabor

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    43 mins
  • du Pont Family - Interview with Lucas Clawson
    Sep 23 2025

    We sit down with historian Lucas R. Clawson to discuss the du Pont family's history of labor relations.

    https://lucasrclawson.com/

    Originally aired: August 8, 2022.

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    46 mins
  • Hazleton General Textile Strike
    Sep 22 2025

    When the United Textile Workers of America declared a general textile strike in 1934, the people of Hazleton, Pennsylvania had a choice: would they stand with the textile workers, or the bosses?

    Originally aired: November 30, 2022.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 1981 Philadelphia Teachers Strike
    Sep 15 2025

    In the midst of Reaganomics, a budget crisis, and a school board imposing layoffs and school closures, Philadelphia's teachers fight for "the integrity of [their] contract, the contracts of all people, and, in general, honor among people."

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 1903 Carpenters Strike
    Sep 14 2025

    In 1903, all building construction in Philadelphia was brought to a grinding halt when just a few thousand carpenters showed the power of their union.

    Originally aired: February 6, 2023.

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    55 mins
  • 1946 Electrical Workers Strike
    Sep 10 2025

    After World War 2, American soldiers came home to low wages and strict bosses. In 1946, 200,000 electrical appliance workers struck in cities across the country with 20,000 in Philadelphia alone. They had just beaten Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, next up was General Electric and Westinghouse.

    Episodes 36-37 originally aired on October 17 and 31, 2022.

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    1 hr and 43 mins