E50: Working Class History the book
Working Class History
Working Class History
5.0 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In it, we discuss the book, the WCH project, the nature of people's history, our approach to class and its intersection with other forms of oppression. Our conversation also touches on lots of stories of rebellion, including the fight for the weekend, and tea breaks, opposing the Ku Klux Klan, resisting the police and more.
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Links
Full show notes, links, acknowledgements and transcript here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e50-working-class-history-the-book/
This original episode on Coffee with Comrades: https://coffeewithcomrades.com/episode-114-history-from-below-ft-working-class-history
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to you, our generous patrons for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Conor Canatsey, Ariel Gioia, and Shae.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome back to the working class history podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | We've got something a bit different for you today because I recently sat down with our friends at the Coffee with Commerites podcast to chat about our new book, |
| 0:11.0 | Working Class History, Everyday Act to Resistance and Rebellion, which is available now in our online store at shop. |
| 0:18.0 | Dotworkandclasshistory.com and link in the show notes. |
| 0:24.4 | So after the theme music, what follows is their interview with me, |
| 0:26.9 | which they then edited into an episode of their podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | And they kindly shared the audio with us to release as an episode as well. |
| 0:34.1 | So if you enjoy it, make sure to check out the Coffee with Comrades podcast and subscribe. |
| 0:54.7 | Enjoy. John, Ciao, Ciao, Ciao with Commeras, John, welcome on coffee with comrades, buddy. |
| 1:12.2 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah, absolutely, bud. |
| 1:14.9 | Well, can you tell listeners who may not be aware a little bit about working class history, |
| 1:19.5 | like what was the genesis of the project, how did it come into being, and where are y'all |
| 1:24.3 | at now? |
| 1:25.2 | In general terms, we're like a collective of people who were basically dedicated to researching and promoting people's history, |
| 1:31.3 | the history of social movements and struggles, with the intention of helping kind of educate and inspire our organizing efforts and our struggles today. |
| 1:40.3 | We got started in basically posting on this day in history anniversaries on social |
| 1:46.6 | media because we thought that might be a good way of helping kind of radical history go a bit |
| 1:51.3 | viral because people kind of like anniversaries. Yeah. Like they're totally arbitrary, but |
| 1:55.9 | we've passed this arbitrary point around the sun. yippee. No, exactly. |
| 2:01.6 | And but at the same time, they do kind of draw a connection with the present that might not otherwise be there, you know, that this random thing happened like 250 years ago or whatever, but it was a day, kind of like today. |
| 2:13.6 | So that was sort of how we started, doing social media posts and that was kind of more |
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