Bitter Kisses for Labor

<p>Dr. Carol Quirke, Professor of History at SUNY-Old Westbury, on "Bitter Kisses for Labor: Mass Consumer Capitalism and the Hershey Chocolate Sit-down Strike, 1937," part of the "<a href='https://sandhill.lib.msu.edu/search?fq=series_info:Our%5C%20daily%5C%20work%2C%5C%20our%5C%20daily%5C%20lives%5C%20brown%5C%20bag%5C%20series'>Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series</a> sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Quirke tracks the use of photography to present unions and strikes as violent and un-American, and describes how Hershey management fought off the attempt at unionization. PLUS: More Perfect Union’s <a href='https://youtu.be/SArg_sCqQYg'>"Hershey Prison" 2022 report</a> on brutal working conditions at a Hershey factory. On this week’s <a href='https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/'>Labor History in Two</a>:  Another Day in the Class War.</p> <p>Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at <a href='mailto:LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com'>LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Labor History Today is produced by <a href='https://unioncityradio.podbean.com/'>Union City Radio</a> and the <a href='https://lwp.georgetown.edu/'>Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor</a>.</p> <p>#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory  </p>