31 -- Labour Day Special
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Featuring special guest Newsies expert, our friend Laura!
Interstitial music:
- David Bowie, Drive-In Saturday
Newsies Cast, Seize the Day
Pete Seeger, Union Maid
Woody Guthrie, You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union
Dolly Parton, 9 to 5
Dropkick Murphys, Which Side Are You On?
I'm going to be honest with everyone, I'm sick of looking at, listening to, or thinking about this episode. In lieu of my usual description have some links:
Factual Podcasts about the Newsies Strike:
- Bowery Boys (Episode 219)
- The Dollop (Episode 275)
Newsies-Related Youtube Links
New York History Recommended Reading, courtesy Laura:
- Timothy Gilfoyle's "The Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York"
- Tyler Anbinder's "Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum"
- David Nasaw's "Children of the City"
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti's "Kids On Strike"
- David von Drehle's "Triangle: The Fire That Changed America"
- Jacob Riis' "How The Other Half Lives"
to which I'd like to add:
- Gerard Jones' "Men Of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book"
- Michelle Markel and Melissa Sweet's "Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909" (for kids!)
- Elana Dykewomon's "Beyond the Pale" (fiction)
And last but not least
- The Norma Rae fanmix I made while procrastinating on editing this episode
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