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Interviews

ahmed white, labor scholar

jefferson public radio, the jefferson exchange

People with power and money went to great lengths to cripple the IWW, a story Ahmed White tells in his book Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. Interview, June 2023. Click Here.

WVKR, Activist radio

Ahmed White, author and professor of labor and criminal law at the University of Colorado Boulder, talks about his recently released book: "Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers," June 2023. Click Here and scroll down or search for "Guest: Ahmed White."

WVLY/WTCS, Howard Monroe & the Morning show

In this show, Howard Monroe interviews Ahmed White, June 2023. Click Here

Talk World Radio

In this May 2023 show, David Swanson is discussing the IWW, (the Industrial Workers of the World or Wobblies) with Ahmed White, author of the new book Under The Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. Click Here

WDVR, The World of Work 

Shep Cohen talks with Ahmed White about the Wobblies, May 2023. Click Here, and scroll down to select the Ahmed White interview. 

WHMP, Talk the Talk

Bill Newman talks with law professor Ahmed White about his book, Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers, May 2023. Click Here.  

WGTD Morning Show

Greg Berg interviews law professor Ahmed White on Under the Iron Heel, May 2023. Click Here.  

WBAI, Leonard Lopate at Large

Law Professor Ahmed White on Under the Iron Heel, May 2023. Click Here.  

KABF, Wade’s World

Wade Rathke interviews Ahmed White about the IWW, a radical workers’ union suppressed 100 years ago, May 2023. Click Here, and scroll down within video window to "older posts." 

WHYL, The Rick Smith Show

Ahmed White on The Little Steel Strike, April 2023. Click Here

WSCA, Keeping Democracy Alive

"Courage Unexcelled in U.S. History," Burt Cohen interviews Ahmed White, April 2023. Click Here

WMBR,  Radio with a View

Under the Iron Heel, The IWW, and Labor Today with Ahmed White, April 2023. Click Here

KGNU, THE LABOR EXCHANGE

The Wobblies with Ahmed White, April 2023. Click Here for Part I, Part II, and Part III

East side freedom library

Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long 19th Century, February 2023. Click Here

WALTER P. REUTHER LIBRARY

Under the Iron Heel: Repressing the IWW and Free Speech, Wayne State University, February 2023. Click Here

KPFA, 94.1 LETTERS & POLITICS

The Rise & Fall of The Wobblies: America’s Most Radical Union, December 2022. Click Here

Against the Grain

The War on the Industrial Workers of the World with Sasha Lilley, January 2023. Click Here

LITERARY HUB

What the Early 20th-Century War on Radical Workers Tells Us About the Struggle Between Labor and Capital in America Today, December 2022. Click Here

The Author’s Corner

The Author’s Corner with Ahmed White, Current, November 2022. Click Here

new books network

Ahmed White’s Under the Iron Heel, October 2022. Click Here

lawyers, guns, and Money

How the American Government Crushed the IWW, October 2022. Click Here

jacobin
magazine

The Early IWW’s Unionism Was So Effective that Capitalists Decided it Had to Be Smashed, September 2022. Click Here

Green & Red: podcasts for scrappy radicals

Capital’s war on the working class with Prof. Chad Pearson and Prof. Ahmed White, June 2022. Click Here

valley labor report

A Historical Analysis of Mass Picketing and its Impact, February 2022. Click Here

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