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Boot Biters is a labor history podcast that strongly believes that history isn't boring and work shouldn't suck!
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33. 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down (opens the original)
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Right on the tail end of the Flint General Motors Sit-Down came another sit-down, this time at a Woolworth's Five and Dime in Detroit and composed entirely by mostly young women and teenagers. Tired of poor pay, long hours, and gross treatment from management, the workers led by a candy attendant named Vita Terrall approached a local union for support. With no prior strike experience, they still threatened to occupy the store until their demands were met. Over the course of 7 days, they came tog
32. The 1936-37 Great General Motors Sit-Down Strike #2 (opens the original)
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In our second episode covering the the 1936-37 Great General Motors Sit-Down Strike, we dig into the logistics of a 44-day long sit down at Fisher Plant No. 1 in Flint, Michigan including the zany ways people stay entertained while hunkered down in a factory, we cover Fisher Plant No. 2's victory in rebuffing an attack by police during the tongue-in-cheek named Battle of the Running Bulls, and discover the extreme lengths the union had to go to to counter GM's espionage, including an elaborate s
31. The 1936-37 Great General Motors Sit-Down Strike #1 (opens the original)
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Whenever I think "oh, this will just be a quick episode!" I'm proven wrong instantly. In the midst of the Great Depression, auto workers at General Motors plants across the country—but particularly in Michigan—were facing speed ups, pay cuts, dangerous working conditions, and outright abuse and assault by anti-union forces. Workers at Fisher Plant No. 1 in Flint, Michigan decided to do something bold about it. Popularizing a wave of sit-down strikes, workers occupied the plant for 44 days, comin
30. 1946 Abadan Oil Worker Strikes in Iran (opens the original)
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In this jam-packed episode we explore a series of strikes led by oil workers at the Abadan oil refinery in Iran, culminating in an oil industry general strike in 1946. We dive into the advent of the global oil industry, British colonization and economic exploitation through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, explore the impact of WWII occupation of Iran on Iranian workers, the segregated company city of Abadan, and learn about the labor movement that bloomed in spite of repressive conditions, eventu
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