In the third episode of our mini-series on the state of labor, Harry Rosenblum, host of Feast Yr Ears and Time For Lunch, talks to Fred Mattera. Fred is currently the Executive Director at the Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island, and has been a commercial fisherman for over 4...

Magaly Licolli is a labor organizer in Northwest Arkansas, home to the chicken industry. She has been helping poultry workers push back against industry, demanding health care, paid leave, and better wages and working conditions, particularly during the pandemic. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support...

A playlist looking at labor issues in the food world as well as the unions, cooperatives, and technology platforms helping to empower workers.

Join us for a conversation with Margaret Nyamumbo, founder of Kahawa 1893. Margaret is a third generation coffee farmer and grew up on a farm in Kenya before immigrating to the USA. After earning her MBA from Harvard, she went on to work on Wall Street when she rediscovered her...

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Paula Johnson. V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder explores human-nature relationships through the social life of camarones, a Peruvian river crustacean. Drawing together stories of landscape, labor and gastronomic revival...

Hello friends. This week we welcome our dear friend, Mary Beth White. Mary Beth is a women's health care nurse practitioner, advanced practice holistic nurse, transpersonal nurse coach and former hospice nurse whose interest in non-traditional funerals and green burials was inspired by caring for her mom and family at...

Hay dos versiones de esta historia, una en inglés y una en español. You can find the english version in the Meat and Three episode on unions. Hoy, tenemos una historia sobre cómo el legado de las leyes agrícolas de Jim Crow sigue viva hoy en Nueva York. Maya Bernstein-Schalet...

In honor of May Day (celebrated world-wide on May 1st), we bring you four stories about workers organizing and unionizing around the country. First, we’ll start in our own backyard: New York City. We dive into the world of food delivery workers and their efforts to legislate the delivery apps...

It’s the final episode of our series on global trade, and we’ve got our eyes set on the future. In the past, trade was hindered by distance and limited communication, which today’s internet and fast travel routes have helped to mediate. These days, trade is confronted by new issues: global...

Tom Philpott of Mother Jones discusses his recent story about Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and how he has steered the industry away from safety for workers. In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows from our homes all around the country. It was hard work stepping away...