America Works Podcast

By: Library of Congress
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  • Summary

  • Voices of contemporary workers from throughout the U.S. talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center’s Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today’s working Americans.
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Episodes
  • George Neiden, German sausage maker. Maple Heights. Ohio.

    George Neiden, German sausage maker. Maple Heights. Ohio.
    Oct 3 2024
    German sausage maker George Neiden, who owns and runs the Old Country Sausage Kitchen in Maple Heights, Ohio, talks with folklorist Lucy Long about learning and plying his trade – (and the delight he takes in creating new sausage flavors!) -- for her Occupational Folklife Project “Ethnic Grocers in the Urban Midwest.”
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    6 mins
  • Jade Sato, Asian American Farm Owner. Brighton, Colorado.

    Jade Sato, Asian American Farm Owner. Brighton, Colorado.
    Sep 26 2024
    Jade Sato, the founder and owner of Minoru Farm in Brighton, Colorado, talks with documentarian Katelyn Reuther about being part of a growing movement of Asian American farmers, many of them women, who are experimenting with raising and marketing Asian heritage crops, like sisho, ginger and gobo root, for a rapidly diversifying American palate. Their talk is part of Reuther’s Occupation Folklife Project “Finding Roots: Asian American Farmers in Contemporary America.”
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    7 mins
  • Emily Daniels, Agricultural Pilot. South Hampton, New Jersey.

    Emily Daniels, Agricultural Pilot. South Hampton, New Jersey.
    Sep 19 2024
    Emily Daniel, one of a small but growing number of female agricultural pilots – or, as they are often referred to, “crop dusters” – talks with documentarian Ellen Kendricks about learning to fly planes as a teenager, career challenges, and managing a small family-owned crop spraying business that services farms from New Jersey to Maryland and Texas and Kansas.
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    6 mins
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