Josiah Rector on Unions and Environmental Justice
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Josiah Rector is an urban historian specializing in 20th-century U.S. urban environmental history, the history of the environmental justice movement, and labor history. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Wayne State University, and his dissertation received the Urban History Association’s Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation in Urban History, in 2016. He was subsequently a visiting professor of U.S. and Environmental History at Northland College in 2017-2019. His first book, Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit, is a history of environmental inequality and environmental activism in Detroit from the late 19th century to the present.
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Host: C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Video Design: Jason Myles
Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn
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You can find the additional streams on Youtube
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