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Updated 11/20/2025

3D AGO

Discussion 4: “Predicting the boss’ lies helps you prepare for them”

It’s no surprise that bosses don’t exactly love unions—in fact, it’s pretty common for them to union-bust the hell out of our campaigns. So how can we get ahead of that and prepare for their reactions? Today’s guests, Atulya Dora-Laskey and Clarissa Redwine, answer that question. “Unite and Win: A Guide to Workplace Organizing” is a 13-part podcast series by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), produced in partnership with Haymarket Books. This podcast is split up into two parts: an audiobook version of EWOC’s Unite & Win handbook and discussions with labor organizers across industries moderated by labor journalist and author Kim Kelly. These discussion episodes use real-world examples to illustrate the themes we raise in the handbook, including just how much a union can help us accomplish when we come together and fight. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including the Unite & Win handbook and Revolution in Seattle, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket and help fund projects like this one. Visit workerorganizing.org to get support, sign up for a training, or volunteer with EWOC. Please also consider making a donation to support our work. Our audiobook host is Wes Holing. Discussion episodes are hosted by Kim Kelly. Giulia Hjort is our senior producer, and Rachel Lightner is our engineer. Production support from Daphna Thier and Megan Svoboda. Music from Epidemic Sound.

3d ago

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36 min
SEASON 2 TRAILER

Introducing Heat the Ground Up

What does it *feel like* to build worker power? Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.

S2 Trailer

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2 min
01/23/2024

Why the American Working Class Is Different

Welcome to episode one of Fragile Juggernaut, the first project from Haymarket Originals! In episode one, we introduce our “organizing committee” of six rotating hosts and our goals for this collective project of inquiry into the history of the U.S. workers’ movement. We then tackle a key historical question: what was the American working class? We begin the story of the CIO in the nineteenth century in order to identify the different groups—immigrants, farmers, artisans, enslaved workers—who comprised the “raw materials” of an inchoate working class. Following their varied paths into wage work, and their relationship to the politics that resulted in the Civil War, the episode ends with the rise of industrial corporations, most notably the railroads, and the political compromise that ended Reconstruction—with a national uprising of workers in 1877. That mass action anticipates what’s to come for the emerging labor movement. Fragile Juggernaut is a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring the history, politics, and strategic lessons of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the rank and file insurgency that produced it. Support Fragile Juggernaut on Patreon and receive our exclusive bimonthly newsletter, full of additional insights, reading recommendations, and archival materials we’ve amassed along the way. Buy Class Struggle Unionism, 20% off!

01/23/2024

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1h 27m
JAN 13

Intro Lesson: You Are the Union

Wes Holing reads the introductory chapter to the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee’s Unite & Win handbook, published in 2024 by Haymarket Books. “Unite and Win: A Guide to Workplace Organizing” is a 13-part podcast series by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), produced in partnership with Haymarket Books. This podcast is split up into two parts: an audiobook version of EWOC’s Unite & Win handbook and discussions with labor organizers across industries moderated by labor journalist and author Kim Kelly. These discussion episodes use real-world examples to illustrate the themes we raise in the handbook, including just how much a union can help us accomplish when we come together and fight. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including the Unite & Win handbook and Class Struggle Unionism, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket and help fund projects like this one. Visit workerorganizing.org to get support, sign up for a training, or volunteer with EWOC. Please also consider making a donation to support our work. Our audiobook host is Wes Holing. Discussion episodes are hosted by Kim Kelly. Giulia Hjort is our senior producer, and Rachel Lightner is our engineer. Production support from Daphna Thier and Megan Svoboda. Music from Epidemic Sound.

Jan 13

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23 min
JAN 14

Intro Discussion: “We are the source of our power”

Today’s episode is all about the basics of organizing, with guests Dawn Tefft and Bob Lawson. “Unite and Win: A Guide to Workplace Organizing” is a 13-part podcast series by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), produced in partnership with Haymarket Books. This podcast is split up into two parts: an audiobook version of EWOC’s Unite & Win handbook and discussions with labor organizers across industries moderated by labor journalist and author Kim Kelly. These discussion episodes use real-world examples to illustrate the themes we raise in the handbook, including just how much a union can help us accomplish when we come together and fight. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including the Unite & Win handbook and Organized Labor and the Black Worker, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket and help fund projects like this one. Visit workerorganizing.org to get support, sign up for a training, or volunteer with EWOC. Please also consider making a donation to support our work. Our audiobook host is Wes Holing. Discussion episodes are hosted by Kim Kelly. Giulia Hjort is our senior producer, and Rachel Lightner is our engineer. Production support from Daphna Thier and Megan Svoboda. Music from Epidemic Sound.

Jan 14

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33 min
FEB 4

Discussion 3: “We had each other; none of us did it alone”

Power in numbers is the theme of today’s episode. Our guests, Grace Reckers and Phoebe Gilpin, are here to take us through the ins and outs of planning a successful collective action. “Unite and Win: A Guide to Workplace Organizing” is a 13-part podcast series by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), produced in partnership with Haymarket Books. This podcast is split up into two parts: an audiobook version of EWOC’s Unite & Win handbook and discussions with labor organizers across industries moderated by labor journalist and author Kim Kelly. These discussion episodes use real-world examples to illustrate the themes we raise in the handbook, including just how much a union can help us accomplish when we come together and fight. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including the Unite & Win handbook and Ours to Master and to Own, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket and help fund projects like this one. Visit workerorganizing.org to get support, sign up for a training, or volunteer with EWOC. Please also consider making a donation to support our work. Our audiobook host is Wes Holing. Discussion episodes are hosted by Kim Kelly. Giulia Hjort is our senior producer, and Rachel Lightner is our engineer. Production support from Daphna Thier and Megan Svoboda. Music from Epidemic Sound.

Feb 4

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41 min
JAN 12

Neoliberalism, Fascism, and the Order of Capital: Spectre Issue 12 Launch

How do we understand the new authoritarianism that has emerged in the context of global instabilities, trade wars, imperial rivalries, and political polarization? Is neoliberalism being replaced by authoritarianism or welded to it? Join Clara Mattei and David McNally for a discussion of these issues explored in the new issue of Spectre Journal. Speakers: Clara E. Mattei is Professor of Economics at The University of Tulsa and the President of FREE: Forum for Real Economic Emancipation. She is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. David McNally is the author of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. An editor of Spectre journal, he teaches history in Houston where he also directs the Project on Race and Capitalism. This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Spectre Journal. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/PTS-cJ37SWc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Jan 12

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1h 22m
JAN 21

Discussion 1: “Who's speaking up and ready to take action?”

Today, we’re talking about charting your workplace and building an organizing committee from scratch, with guests Kellen Gildersleeve and troya wright. “Unite and Win: A Guide to Workplace Organizing” is a 13-part podcast series by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), produced in partnership with Haymarket Books. This podcast is split up into two parts: an audiobook version of EWOC’s Unite & Win handbook and discussions with labor organizers across industries moderated by labor journalist and author Kim Kelly. These discussion episodes use real-world examples to illustrate the themes we raise in the handbook, including just how much a union can help us accomplish when we come together and fight. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including the Unite & Win handbook and Detroit: I Do Mind Dying, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket and help fund projects like this one. Visit workerorganizing.org to get support, sign up for a training, or volunteer with EWOC. Please also consider making a donation to support our work. Our audiobook host is Wes Holing. Discussion episodes are hosted by Kim Kelly. Giulia Hjort is our senior producer, and Rachel Lightner is our engineer. Production support from Daphna Thier and Megan Svoboda. Music from Epidemic Sound.

Jan 21

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33 min
JAN 28

Discussion 2: “I think this is bullsh*t, too”

In today’s episode, we’re getting some answers to the question of how to have an organizing conversation, especially when the stakes are high and retaliation is pretty likely. Our fearless leaders are Ed Blair and Benno Giammarinaro. “Unite and Win: A Guide to Workplace Organizing” is a 13-part podcast series by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), produced in partnership with Haymarket Books. This podcast is split up into two parts: an audiobook version of EWOC’s Unite & Win handbook and discussions with labor organizers across industries moderated by labor journalist and author Kim Kelly. These discussion episodes use real-world examples to illustrate the themes we raise in the handbook, including just how much a union can help us accomplish when we come together and fight. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including the Unite & Win handbook and Set the Earth on Fire, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket and help fund projects like this one. Visit workerorganizing.org to get support, sign up for a training, or volunteer with EWOC. Please also consider making a donation to support our work. Our audiobook host is Wes Holing. Discussion episodes are hosted by Kim Kelly. Giulia Hjort is our senior producer, and Rachel Lightner is our engineer. Production support from Daphna Thier and Megan Svoboda. Music from Epidemic Sound.

Jan 28

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42 min
4D AGO

Lesson 4: Inoculation and the Boss Campaign

Wes Holing reads Lesson 4 of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee’s Unite & Win handbook, published in 2024 by Haymarket Books. “Unite and Win: A Guide to Workplace Organizing” is a 13-part podcast series by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), produced in partnership with Haymarket Books. This podcast is split up into two parts: an audiobook version of EWOC’s Unite & Win handbook and discussions with labor organizers across industries moderated by labor journalist and author Kim Kelly. These discussion episodes use real-world examples to illustrate the themes we raise in the handbook, including just how much a union can help us accomplish when we come together and fight. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including the Unite & Win handbook and Disposable Domestics, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket and help fund projects like this one. Visit workerorganizing.org to get support, sign up for a training, or volunteer with EWOC. Please also consider making a donation to support our work. Our audiobook host is Wes Holing. Discussion episodes are hosted by Kim Kelly. Giulia Hjort is our senior producer, and Rachel Lightner is our engineer. Production support from Daphna Thier and Megan Svoboda. Music from Epidemic Sound.

4d ago

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17 min

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