Today in Labor History May 16, 1912: Studs Terkel was born, New York City. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his book The Good War, a collection of oral histories from World War II. He was born to Russian-Jewish parents. He joined the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project. This provided him work in radio. He best known for his program, The Studs Terkel Program, which aired on WFMT, Chicago, from 1952-1997. Some of the people he interviewed on this show included: Bob Dylan, Big Bill Broonzy, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Luther King and Tennessee Williams.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #StudsTerkel #union #jewish #pulitzer #radio #books #writer @bookstadon

Useless quote for 1 May:

"You know why you don’t work 18 hours a day? Because four guys in Chicago [died] back in 1886. It’s called the Haymarket Affair. They were hanged for you, for the eight-hour day."

~ Studs Terkel, 2000

Link to:
Los Angeles Times, 19 March 2000 op-ed "Studs Terkel"
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-19-op-10415-story.html

#UselessQuote #StudsTerkel

Markets are a value-agnostic resource allocation & exploitation system. If society prefers not to treat humans as resources to be allocated & exploited, then it needs to impose constraints on how markets work. That's regulations. Value alignment, if you will.
-- Studs Terkel

⬆ #Quotes #StudsTerkel #Exploitation #FreeMarket #Regulation

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

'what a glorious & splendid & happy & wonderful thing human life could be if only human beings would let it.'
superduo of the day: studs & bert.
studs terkel interviews bertrand russell (1962) in which bert name-drops percy bysshe shelley:
https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/interviewing-lord-bertrand-russell-while-studs-was-wales
#bertrandRussell #studsTerkel #wales #philosophy #civilDisobediance

Useless quote for 19 Feb:

"The biggest shame is that there is so much abundance around but that so many have so little and so few have so much."

~ Studs Terkel (Mother Jones Magazine Interview, Sep/Oct1995)

#UselessQuote #StudsTerkel

(https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=FucDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT23&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false)

if you want to be an effective interviewer, grab a whole host of pages from studs terkel's book. he always shows a genuine interest in his subjects - well evidenced in this chat he had with frank zappa in 1970.
#frankZappa #studsTerkel #music #interview #musique
https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/discussing-music-mothers-invention-and-interviewing-frank-zappa

On the Right and medical quackery

I'm listening to a 1978 interview of Susan Sontag by Studs Terkel on the topic of Illness as Metaphor.

At 39 minutes, Sontag notes that the extreme right has long been occupied by medical quackery:

"Laetril has very much been taken up by the John Birch Society."

She and Studs also talk about the morality and moralisation of illness, notably (at the time) TB and cancer.

Audio: https://studs-terkel-radio-archive-feed.s3.amazonaws.com/mp3/22912.mp3

Podcast: https://studs.show/feed.xml (XML feed)

#SusanSontag #StudsTerkel #Podcasts #Disease #Quackery #JBS #MoralisingPathology

US-amerikanska arbetarskildrare – Studs Terkel
I Working, som publicerades första gången 1972, redovisar Studs Terkel intervjuer han gjort med över hundra människor om deras arbete.

Förordet inleds med en tämligen drastisk formulering: ”This book, being about work, is, by its very nature about violence–to the spirit as well as the
https://blog.zaramis.se/2022/12/12/us-amerikanska-arbetarskildrare-studs-terkel/
#Böcker #Kultur #USA #Arbetarlitteratur #Arbetarskildringar #StudsTerkel

Intro post! It took me a while to figure out what to say. I've been a software developer or something related like programming instructor or development manager for more than 20 years. I still love it but am trying to start a new career as an author.

My posts are mainly about #writing, #parenting, #MagicTheGathering, and #ProgressiveChristianity.

Favorite authors: #DorisLessing, #LaurenGroff, #HowardThurman, #StudsTerkel, and #TonkeDragt.

Favorite #MTG deck type: graveyard shenanigans

Intro post! It took me a bit to figure out what to say. I’ve been a software developer or related roles, like programming instructor, curriculum creator, and manager for over 20 years. I still love it but am trying to start a new career as an author.

My posts are mainly about #writing, #programming, #parenting, #MagicTheGathering, and #ProgressiveChristanity.

Favorite authors: #DorisLessing, #LaurenGroff, #HowardThurman, #StudsTerkel

Favorite #MTG deck type: graveyard shenanigans

New today at my #eBay store, a #1stEdition of #StudsTerkel's 1997 greatest-hits collection #MyAmericanCentury, just $30 or best offer. https://ebay.us/PJemlN

I am beyond thrilled to spend a lot of my listening time for the rest of the year soaking in #StudsTerkel interviews newly available online https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/

This podcast gives a nice introduction to the breadth of history, people, and topics the archive covers http://radioopensource.org/sound-of-studs-terkel/ it's nice to be passing through Chicago and hear WFMT promoting it on-air too.