Best Haymarket Originals Podcasts (2024)

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13. Impasse: 1937-1939 2:08:10

1h ago2:08:10

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Episode 13 of Fragile Juggernaut surveys the impasse of the Second New Deal with the historian Ahmed White, when the newfound power of working-class organization in mass production confronted the counterattack of property and established social hierarchy. During 1937, the “Little Steel” Strike, the “Roosevelt Recession,” and the political dilemmas …

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12. White Collar 2:14:19

5d ago2:14:19

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Episode 12 of Fragile Juggernaut turns the lens on the situation and activity of white-collar, professional, and creative workers in the 1930s and 1940s. Together with guests Nikil Saval (state senator from Pennsylvania and author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace) and Shannan Clark (historian at Montclair State University and author of T…

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11. Who Gets the Bird? Communists and the CIO 2:31:28

8d ago2:31:28

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Episode 11 of Fragile Juggernaut concerns the Communist Party and its complex role in the creation of the CIO. Andrew and Ben trace the strategic zigzags of America’s far-left, recount their pioneering role in organizing drives, and measure the Party’s own accounts of its politics against the often ambiguous, even contradictory realities of its pra…

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Bonus Episode: Interlude 21:53

2M ago21:53

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This week our crew at Fragile Juggernaut is delivering our second special bonus-episode: while we are on a brief summer hiatus, Andrew and Ben sum up the first half of our mini-series, drawing together the core themes of our show so far and discussing where we’ll go in the second half. Fragile Juggernaut is a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring t…

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Bonus Episode: Know Your Enemy 1:24:42

2M ago1:24:42

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This week our crew at Fragile Juggernaut is delivering our first special bonus episode. Tim and Ben talk with Sam-Adler Bell—an excellent writer and one-half of the brilliant Know Your Enemy podcast—about our series. Appearing on Know Your Enemy gave us a chance to explore a new dimension of our project: to think about the CIO not only as a moment …

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10. Left, Right, and Center 2:25:55

3M ago2:25:55

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Episode 10 of Fragile Juggernaut surveys the wide range of workers who united–and sometimes fought each other–under the banner of the CIO. We begin in the slaughterhouse, with special guest Rick Halpern explaining how the United Packinghouse Workers of America (PWOC/UPWA) brought together black and white workers despite segregation inside and outsi…

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9. Smash Fascism 1:57:25

4M ago1:57:25

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Episode 9 of Fragile Juggernaut is the first of a series of thematic episodes, in which we pause our chronological narrative to survey key issues shaping the world of the CIO. In this episode, we turn our view on the escalating confrontation between fascism and anti-fascism. Was there an American fascism? Where did it come from and what did it look…

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8. The Spirit of 1936 1:47:22

4M ago1:47:22

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Episode 8 of Fragile Juggernaut places us back in the critical juncture of 1936: the final year of Roosevelt’s first term in office. What were FDR’s re-election prospects as workers’ insurgencies erupted from below and as capital waited in vain for the courts to demolish the Wagner Act? What did this juncture mean for the CIO and its relationship t…

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7. Sit Down! 2:07:42

5M ago2:07:42

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Episode seven of Fragile Juggernaut dramatizes the Sit Down strikes that built the UAW: why they proved to be powerful, what effect they had on the labor movement, and the truly global spread of the strike tactic. The fight in Flint and Cleveland, Kansas City and Atlanta, provides an occasion to talk both about the global organization of production…

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6. Passing Laws, Breaking Jaws: The Wagner Act and the Founding of the CIO 2:10:34

5M ago2:10:34

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Episode six of Fragile Juggernaut pivots to high politics and institutional history: chronicling the passage of the Wagner Act, debating its significance, and recounting the raucous AFL convention in Atlantic City where the CIO was born. Featuring special guest Eric Blanc. Fragile Juggernaut is a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring the history, p…

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5. The Strikes That Broke Through 2:12:15

6M ago2:12:15

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Episode five of Fragile Juggernaut is a dramatic retelling of the nearly-revolutionary strikes of 1934, in Toledo and San Francisco, in Minneapolis and across America’s textile belt: moments that dramatize the powerful interaction between radical militant minorities on the shop floor and mass working class struggles. Frustrated by the passivity of …

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4. Rupture 1:11:27

6M ago1:11:27

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Episode four of Fragile Juggernaut surveys the panorama of social life transfigured by the first three years of the Great Depression. By examining the sharp and persisting business downturn as a crisis of social reproduction—in which the conditions for working people to reproduce themselves appeared to permanently subside—Tim, Ben, Emma, and Andrew…

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3. The Lean Years 1:35:04

7M ago1:35:04

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Episode three of Fragile Juggernaut explores the transformations within the working class brought about by World War I and its decade-long aftermath. A growing political alliance between the AF of L and Woodrow Wilson’s Democratic Party profoundly altered the labor movement of the Progressive Era, growing its size and militancy amid the rising pric…

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2. Socialism in its Work Clothes 1:30:10

7M ago1:30:10

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Episode two of Fragile Juggernaut picks up with the labor movement of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. How did workers organize themselves amidst shifts in the structure of the economy, from the acceleration of proletarianization to the rise of corporate capitalism, and what opposition did they confront? Fragile Juggernaut is a Ha…

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1. Why the American Working Class Is Different 1:26:30

8M ago1:26:30

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Welcome to episode one of Fragile Juggernaut, the first project from Haymarket Originals! In episode one, we introduce our “organizing committee” of six rotating hosts and our goals for this collective project of inquiry into the history of the U.S. workers’ movement. We then tackle a key historical question: what was the American working class? We…

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Haymarket Originals: Fragile Juggernaut

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13. Impasse: 1937-1939 2:08:10

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12. White Collar 2:14:19

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11. Who Gets the Bird? Communists and the CIO 2:31:28

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Bonus Episode: Interlude 21:53

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Bonus Episode: Know Your Enemy 1:24:42

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10. Left, Right, and Center 2:25:55

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9. Smash Fascism 1:57:25

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8. The Spirit of 1936 1:47:22

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7. Sit Down! 2:07:42

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6. Passing Laws, Breaking Jaws: The Wagner Act and the Founding of the CIO 2:10:34

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5. The Strikes That Broke Through 2:12:15

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4. Rupture 1:11:27

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3. The Lean Years 1:35:04

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2. Socialism in its Work Clothes 1:30:10

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1. Why the American Working Class Is Different 1:26:30

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