Episode 3-2 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Part 2 of our Year in Review/Year in Preview with labor leader Rosemary Trump and labor historian Dr. Charles McCollester. They continue their discussion with host Nathan Ruggles on a range of issues facing workers on the job and in society today.

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Episode 3-1 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

A New Year and new season on the podcast!

Long-time friends of the show, labor leader Rosemary Trump and labor historian Dr. Charles McCollester join host Nathan Ruggles for a Year in Review/Year in Preview on a range of issues facing workers on the job and in society today.

• Film: Don't Look Up on Netflix

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Episode 2-5 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

A bonus previously unreleased excerpt from our interview with entrepreneur and author Jeff Wald., in which he talks about his $10 Million “Future of Work” Prize with host Nathan Ruggles. In the last episode, they had an in-depth conversation of Jeff’s book The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Check out that in Episode 2-4 here.

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Episode 2-4 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Host Nathan Ruggles discusses the book The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations with author Jeff Wald. A best-selling writer, tech entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of WorkMarket and Spinback, Jeff examines how companies and workers reacted to the last three industrial revolutions. They review this history of work and his analysis of how it has led to the current state of the labor market, along with how workers, companies and societies might respond to the coming Rise of the Robots.

Watch for a special podcast Bonus Episode coming soon, with special additional content from the interview, in which they discuss Jeff’s $10 Million “Future of Work” Prize.

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This is Episode 2-3 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Nathan Ruggles hosts our feature interview Dr. Joe Trotter is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), President Elect of the Urban History Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest publication is Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (University of California Press, 2019).

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Season 2, Episode 2 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Nathan Ruggles hosts our feature interview with the co-founders of ASA Social Fund for Hidden Peoples: Dr. Louis Picard and Pauline Greenlick. They discuss microloans, and how they provide financial resources and support to qualified individuals and groups -- particularly to vulnerable and fragile children and adults beset by strife, disability, or trauma in Uganda -- helping them build sustainable, successful business enterprises. We take a look through our unique lens of past, present, and future: getting the all-important background to their organization, hearing the stories of the microloan recipients, along with discussing what lies beyond the impact of the pandemic.

• ASA Social Fund for Hidden Peoples: https://asasocialfundforhiddenpeoples.org
• Pauline Greenlick’s films for the organization and IMDb page
• Dr. Louis Picard at The University of Pittsburgh

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This is Season 2, Episode 1 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

The start of a new season!

Host Nathan Ruggles talks with Battle of Homestead Foundation Communications Manager and music guru Larry McCullough. After a quick check-in and look back on the organization, Larry kicks off this season with a selection from the cannon of presidential campaign songs. He reviews the New Lost City Ramblers and their version of “Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again,” from their album “Songs from the Depression”, with a look back at its place in the tradition of both music and presidential politics.

“Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again” on YouTube Music

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This is Episode 11 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Including:

1. Patricia DeMarco (https://patriciademarco.com) hosts our feature interview with Rayden Sorock, Director of Community Projects for Grow Pittsburgh, who has worked to support the growth and sustainability of more than 100 community gardens in Allegheny County over 9 years. They discuss initiatives around urban agriculture and preserving fertile land in Pittsburgh to feed people, along with ideas of regenerative agriculture.

• Grow Pittsburgh: growpittsburgh.org
• “Pathways to a New Economy that Works for All of Us”: With her thirty-year career in energy and environmental policy in both the private and public sector, Dr. DeMarco regularly addresses labor, environment and health considerations as she explores Re-Imagining America with her guests -- all amazing experts and change agents -- who are building those positive pathways toward a sustainable future.

2. Battle of Homestead Foundation Communications Manager Larry McCullough talks with host Nathan Ruggles, reviewing the online programming from the past year -- including the YouTube series “Charlie’s Monday Marker” -- and inviting listeners to contribute ideas for future events (email bhfprograms@gmail.com). The episode wraps with a music selection from Larry. This time, it’s an example of a Mexican-American corrido with a labor and political theme. The song is composed by Rumel Fuentes, and recorded in 1976 by Los Pinguinos Del Norte, preserved as part of the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings at UCLA:

• Corrido de César Chávez

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