Mark Erlich on the Way We Build and Restoring Dignity to Construction Work
Mark Erlich on the Way We Build and Restoring Dignity to Construction Work
This month's episode gives a nod to one of the figures in our logo: the construction worker. Our guest, Mark Erlich has ... Read more
2 Aug 2023
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31mins
Chelsea Schields on Oil, Intimacy, and the Offshore
Chelsea Schields on Oil, Intimacy, and the Offshore
In this month's episode, guest Chelsea Schields discusses oil refining and intimacy, illuminating the social ties and a... Read more
3 Jul 2023
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49mins
Joan Flores-Villalobos on How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
Joan Flores-Villalobos on How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
When it was completed in 1914, the Panama Canal nearly halved the travel time between the U.S. West Coast and Europe an... Read more
4 May 2023
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49mins
Christy Thornton on Mexico, Development, and Governing the Global Economy
Christy Thornton on Mexico, Development, and Governing the Global Economy
In this month's episode, Christy Thornton discusses the surprising influence of post-revolutionary Mexico on some of th... Read more
5 Apr 2023
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42mins
Special Episode on the Military and the Market
Special Episode on the Military and the Market
This month, we welcomed Jennifer Mittelstadt back to the show, joined by Mark Wilson, to discuss their new edited volume... Read more
7 Mar 2023
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46mins
Allan Lumba on Monetary Authorities in the American Colonial Philippines
Allan Lumba on Monetary Authorities in the American Colonial Philippines
In this episode, historian Allan Lumba explores how the United States wielded monetary authority in the colonial Philipp... Read more
2 Feb 2023
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38mins
Chad Pearson on Klansmen, Employer Vigilantes, and Labor Suppression in the Long Nineteenth Century
Chad Pearson on Klansmen, Employer Vigilantes, and Labor Suppression in the Long Nineteenth Century
This month’s episode takes listeners back in time to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time of significant labor... Read more
5 Dec 2022
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35mins
Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and the Making of Modern China
Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and the Making of Modern China
This month’s episode picks up on a theme previously explored on the podcast: international finance. Drawing on a broad ... Read more
3 Oct 2022
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33mins
Claire Dunning on Nonprofit Neighborhoods and Urban Inequality
Claire Dunning on Nonprofit Neighborhoods and Urban Inequality
In this month's episode, Claire Dunning explains how and why non-profits came to play such an important role in U.S. cit... Read more
2 Aug 2022
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49mins
Mircea Raianu on Tata and Global Capitalism in India
Mircea Raianu on Tata and Global Capitalism in India
In this episode, Mircea Raianu traces the rise of the Tata Group, one of India's largest and oldest companies, from its ... Read more
7 Jul 2022
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49mins