Studs Terkel at 100: Working

In our second day featuring the work done and inspired by oral historian Studs Terkel, Dick speaks to labor leader and steel worker Ed Sadlowski. We hear him driving Studs Terkel around the flagging steel mills in South Chicago, and Dick talks with Sadlowski about steel mill work and organizing.

To Cut a Knife

Knife maker Joel Bukiewicz talks about finding an old grinder in his parents’ barn and trying to make a knife. It was the first of many. He describes shaping the steel and making close to a dozen knives every month for his shop Cut Brooklyn.

Music in this episode: "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson; "Which Side Are you On" by Pete Seeger; and "Back Bay Shuffle" by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra.

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