Labor History Today: The Homestead Strike in Film and Song
Harold Phillips | Published on 1/23/2026
This Week On Labor History Today, we trace how the 1892 Homestead Strike lives on through film and song. Cultural critic Kathleen Newman takes us inside The Hidden Shift, a two-screen film installation that reimagines Homestead while linking it to today’s service-sector labor, and we close with Pete Seeger’s “Homestead Strike Song,” a reminder of how music has kept the story alive across generations.
Listen to the show here.