History

Haymarket Originals is a new home for audio deep dives, by and for the left—brought to you by Haymarket Books. 

The first Haymarket Originals project is FRAGILE JUGGERNAUT: WHAT WAS THE CIO? 

Through a limited run of twenty episodes, a group of labor historians and organizers will revisit the near-mythical history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)—and the high water mark of US labor activity in the 1930s and 1940s—in the context of today’s critical juncture in the labor movement. 

Join Tim Barker, Andrew Elrod, Ben Mabie, Alex Press, Emma Teitelman, Gabriel Winant, and special guests as they explore the trajectory of the American working class through a period of its greatest drama and political possibility.