Power At Work Power At Work Crossover Blogcast: Lessons for the Trump Era
Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris will be co-hosting this blogcast with Chris Garlock from the Labor Heritage Power Hour and Labor History Today podcasts. To celebrate Labor History Month, they will be joined by Professor Veroníca Martínez-Matsuda from the University of California, San Diego, and Professor Joe McCartin from Georgetown University to discuss the lessons from labor history. Watch now to hear the discussion on the 1981 PATCO strike, migrant farm workers, the National Labor Relations Act, and more!
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Chris Garlock is the Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and the founder-coordinator of the Labor Radio Podcast Network (which Power At Work is a proud member of!). Garlock co-hosts two labor podcasts, the Labor Heritage Power Hour and Labor History Today. He is also the executive director of the DC Labor FilmFest.
Veroníca Martínez-Matsuda is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego; prior to this, she was an Associate Professor in Cornell University ILR School’s Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History. Martínez-Matsuda has published numerous academic articles on migrant farm workers and labor history, most notably her book “Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Labor Camp Program.”
Joe McCartin is the founding Executive Director of Georgetown's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. McCarrtin is currently a Professor of History at Georegtown University. He is the 2024-26 president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association, and a board member of the Catholic Labor Network. He makes regular appearances in Chris Garlock’s podcast Labor History Today.