Sharon Block

9 Podcast Episodes

Rights for Essential Workers During COVID-19 with Sharon Block

Rights for Essential Workers During COVID-19 with Sharon Block

This week Beth and Jess talk about the rights of essential workers as COVID infection rates continue to soar in many US ... Read more

9 Jul 2020

43mins

Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When did labor law stop working?

Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When did labor law stop working?

Why would it take an Amazon worker, employed full time, more than a million years to earn what its CEO, Jeff Bezos now p... Read more

30 Mar 2020

30mins

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Update: Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sharon Block and Chris Lu)

Update: Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sharon Block and Chris Lu)

This episode was first released in March, but so much has happened since then in the world of overtime that we thought w... Read more

11 Jun 2019

46mins

Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sharon Block and Chris Lu)

Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sharon Block and Chris Lu)

The overtime threshold used to be the minimum wage for the middle class—but where did it go? Labor experts Sharon Block ... Read more

12 Mar 2019

46mins

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Sharon Block, "Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Sharon Block, "Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Today we have a certain idea of "race"; it's socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in a... Read more

28 Nov 2018

1hr 1min

Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Today we have a certain idea of “race”; it’s socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in a... Read more

28 Nov 2018

58mins

Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Today we have a certain idea of “race”; it’s socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in a... Read more

28 Nov 2018

58mins

Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Today we have a certain idea of “race”; it’s socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in a... Read more

28 Nov 2018

1hr

092 Sharon Block, How to Research History Online (Doing History)

092 Sharon Block, How to Research History Online (Doing History)

How do historians conduct research online? This is your second-most asked question after how did everyday people live th... Read more

26 Jul 2016

53mins

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