THIS episode of “Charlie’s Monday Marker” looks at the legacy of Pittsburgh "working-class" sports in 20th-century...
Charlie’s Monday Marker ~ Episode 24: Pittsburgh Working-Class Sports
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Charlie’s Monday Marker ~ Episode 23: Frances Perkins Visits Pittsburgh; JFK-Nixon McKeesport Debate
JULY 1933: U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins visited Homestead and Pittsburgh, speaking to hundreds of...
Charlie’s Monday Marker ~ Episode 22: Industrial Unionism and the CIO
PITTSBURGH WAS the site of one of the landmark gatherings of modern unionism — the founding on Nov. 14, 1938, of the...
Charlie’s Monday Marker ~ Episode 21: The New Deal and Labor Rights
IN 1937, in the case of National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, the U.S. Supreme Court...
Charlie’s Monday Marker ~ Episode 20: Mother Jones and Fannie Sellins
TWO MARKERS in this episode, each recounting the leadership and heroism of two early 20th-century labor organizers...