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Steven Pitts

3 articles and 37 podcasts

Steven Pitts is a long-time labor strategist. For 19 years, Steven led the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where he focused on a wide range of issues facing Black workers. He is a co-founder of the National Black Worker Center. Prior to joining the Labor Center, he taught economics for 15 years at the Houston Community College, and worked in a machine shop where he was active in the United Steelworkers of America. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Houston in 1994.

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Freedom Train: Steven Pitts in Conversation with Cedric de Leon

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Today's episode features an interview by Steven Pitts, the former host and creator of our longest running podcast, "Black Work Talk." He sat down with Professor of Sociology and Labor at University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Cedric de Leon, to discuss Cedric’s forthcoming book contracted with University of California Press, "Freedom Train."