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  • Discussing the book "Blue Belle" with the author, attorney Andrew Vachss

    Dec. 13, 1988
  • Three residents of Newburgh, Indiana discusses their lives

  • Sister Margot Lloran talks with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 29, 1986
  • Terkel comments and presents a gathering of survivors

    Mar. 1, 1958
  • Dorothy Andrers, Berlene Bernette, Fay Williams

    Three employees from the Hanes factory in Galax, Virginia discuss their work environment

    Oct. 28, 1982
  • Interview with a London cabby ; part 2

    1968
  • Barry Byrne discusses architecture of Chicago ; part 1

    1970
  • Mrs. Koenig discusses her daily life in a village in Switzerland then at 18:50 the tape switches to a conversation with a mosiac artist

    1962
  • Barbara Garson discusses her book "The Electronic Sweatshop"

    Jun. 16, 1988
  • Labor worker Mike LaVelle discusses work in the steel industry ; part 1

  • Interviewing composer Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig

    Aug. 4, 1989
  • Interviewing Will Paynter a Welsh miner, and reading Albert Maltz's short story "The happiest man on earth," while Studs was in Wales

    Mar. 1, 1971
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