# Ruth Milkman

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Episode 3: Sit Down!

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/cio-organize-podcast-sit-down-strikes/ On the third episode of Organize the Unorganized, we examine the three initial major victories of the CIO in rubber, auto, and steel. We begin by recounting the story of the “first CIO strike” at the Goodyear complex in Akron, Ohio…

Episode 1: Under the Blue Eagle

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/organize-cio-podcast-bridges-trucker-strikes The first episode of Organize the Unorganized sets the stage for the story of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, first getting into the history of the organization from which it broke off, the American Federation of La…

Episode 9: Lessons

This final episode of Organize the Unorganized is devoted to key lessons of the CIO moment. All of the guests on this program were asked about this basic question, and we try to represent all of their answers on this episode. The negative lessons, points where guests were keen to note the differenc…

Women in the Labor Movement

In this episode, we're On the Line with City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Ruth Milkman, chair of the Labor Studies Department and author of dozens of books with a focus on women in the labor movement. We talk about the unique issues women have faced throughout history and their critical …

Episode 7: The Truth Behind "Women's Work"

In this episode, we're On the Line with City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Ruth Milkman, chair of the Labor Studies Department and author of dozens of books with a focus on women in the labor movement. We talk about the unique issues women have faced throughout history and their critical …

6. Narrative Shift with Cristina Jimenez Moreta and Alan Jenkins

In the past two decades, progressives have gotten far more savvy at the strategy we call “narrative shift,” learning how to challenge the dominant story and change the common sense on key issues. For example, on same-sex marriage, activists drove a sea change in public sentiment — from 27% support …

A Scholar's Commitment to Workers' Economic Justice

Labor historian & 2023-24 CASBS fellow Gabriel Winant in conversation with 2018-19 CASBS fellow Ruth Milkman, among the nation's most renowned sociologists of labor. In addition to interrogating divisions within and segmentation across labor markets in recent decades, Milkman also has remained attu…

Unions Represent the Voiceless: Ruth Milkman

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, where she chairs the Labor Studies Department. Her most recent books are Immigration Matters and Immigrant Labor and the N…

Ruth Milkman

Ruth Milkman is a sociologist of labor and labor movements, and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. We examine the role of unions for workers, the main factors of de-unionization, and the pote…

#1823 Deep Cuts: Occupy Wall Street in Real Time, 15 Years Later

Air Date: 9/18/2026 Today we're doing something new and different but also very old. Occupy Wall Street just hit its 15th anniversary this month and we thought we'd do something that only we can, which is dip into our archives and pull out the best of the Occupy coverage we played in real time as …