Earlham College professor Ryan Murphy joined National Public Radio’s “Throughline” podcast as a featured guest to talk about the resurgence in public support for the labor movement.
An associate professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, Murphy is the author of Deregulating Desire, Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice. The book received the 2017 David Montgomery award for best book in labor history from the Organization of American Historians.
Murphy is currently at work on a new project, Teamsters Metropolis, which explores union activists’ fraught relationship to kinship, family, and desire in the neighborhoods of 1950s U.S. cities.
Listen to the podcast episode, “How U.S. Unions Took Flight,” on NPR’s website.
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