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Tag: Radical Reads

November 12, 2025November 26, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E113: Radical Reads – Forces of Labour

Collage image featuring the book cover of Beverly Silver's 'Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870' alongside a crowd of textile strikers in Egypt and another historical labor protest scene, with bold text overlay promoting 'Radical Reads'.

The latest in our Radical Reads series, we discuss Beverly Silver’s pioneering work, Forces of Labour: Workers’ Movements and Globalisation Since 1870, a book which was hugely influential on many of us at Working Class History.

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October 8, 2025October 18, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E112: Radical Reads – Be Gay, Do Crime

Book cover for 'Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion' featuring a crowd at a pride event.

As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak about our latest book, Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, with editors Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine.

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May 23, 2025July 2, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E106: Radical Reads – China in Global Capitalism

As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak to Eli Friedman and Kevin Lin about their new book, China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry.

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January 23, 2025February 12, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E101: Radical Reads – ‘Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics’

As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak to Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond about their book, Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics.

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December 18, 2024January 1, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E98: Radical Reads – ‘Jews Don’t Count’ by David Baddiel

In the latest addition to our Radical Reads series, we invited Michael Richmond to talk to us about David Baddiel’s ridiculous book, Jews Don’t Count.

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November 20, 2024December 11, 2024 Working Class History Podcast

E97: Radical Reads – ‘Hezbollah: 10 Things You Need To Know’

As part of our Radical Reads series, we talk to Elia Ayoub about his article, ‘Hezbollah: 10 Things You Need To Know’.

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October 10, 2024November 26, 2024 Working Class History Podcast

E94: Radical Reads w/ Jasper Bernes – ‘If We Burn’

First of our new series, Radical Reads, in which we team up with Jasper Bernes to discuss Vincent Bevins’ 2023 book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.

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15 April 1916: Domestic Workers Union - On This Day in Working Class History

On this day, 15 April 1916, the newspaper of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers Union in Denver, Colorado. Much of the history of the group was lost, but a fascinating letter by Jane Street, its secretary, was illegally seized by the Justice Department in 1917 and only discovered nearly 60 years later.She was writing to another domestic worker organiser in Tulsa, Oklahoma in which she described how they organised and took action to improve pay and conditions:"if you want to raise a job from $20 to $30. . . you can have a dozen girls answer an ad and demand $30—even if they do not want work at all. Or call up the woman and tell her you will accept the position at $20. Then she will not run her ad the next day. Don’t go. Call up the next day and ask for $25 and promise to go (and don’t go). On the third day she will say, 'Come on out and we will talk the matter over.' You can get not only the wages, but shortened hours and lightened labor as well."More information in our podcast episode 16 about women in the early IWW: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e16-women-in-the-early-iww/Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History

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