9 Podcast Episodes
Rights for Essential Workers During COVID-19 with Sharon Block
Rights for Essential Workers During COVID-19 with Sharon Block
This week Beth and Jess talk about the rights of essential workers as COVID infection rates continue to soar in many US ... Read more
9 Jul 2020
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43mins
Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When did labor law stop working?
Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When did labor law stop working?
Why would it take an Amazon worker, employed full time, more than a million years to earn what its CEO, Jeff Bezos now p... Read more
30 Mar 2020
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30mins
Update: Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sharon Block and Chris Lu)
Update: Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sharon Block and Chris Lu)
This episode was first released in March, but so much has happened since then in the world of overtime that we thought w... Read more
11 Jun 2019
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46mins
Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sharon Block and Chris Lu)
Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sharon Block and Chris Lu)
The overtime threshold used to be the minimum wage for the middle class—but where did it go? Labor experts Sharon Block ... Read more
12 Mar 2019
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46mins
Sharon Block, "Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Sharon Block, "Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Today we have a certain idea of "race"; it's socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in a... Read more
28 Nov 2018
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1hr 1min
Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Today we have a certain idea of “race”; it’s socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in a... Read more
28 Nov 2018
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58mins
Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Today we have a certain idea of “race”; it’s socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in a... Read more
28 Nov 2018
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58mins
Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Today we have a certain idea of “race”; it’s socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in a... Read more
28 Nov 2018
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1hr
092 Sharon Block, How to Research History Online (Doing History)
092 Sharon Block, How to Research History Online (Doing History)
How do historians conduct research online? This is your second-most asked question after how did everyday people live th... Read more
26 Jul 2016
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53mins