THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: High Iron and Higher Stakes
Chris Garlock | Published on 9/20/2025
On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: historian Joe McCartin unpacks Congress’s
“Unmasking Union Antisemitism,” showing how employers have long weaponized antisemitic tropes against unions while Jewish workers helped build a pluralistic, democratic labor movement—and why the latest push is really about weakening unions and chilling speech. Then producer Patrick Dixon talks with artist-anthropologist Aubrey Edwards about High Iron, a traveling boxcar-turned-community museum honoring the immigrant and Indigenous workers who built the West’s railroads, towns, and economy. Two stories, one thread: who tells America’s story—the power brokers, or the people who built it?