Juan Sanchez describes the excitement of training two-year-old racehorses, connecting it to his childhood in Mexico where horses were the main transportation.
As heard by us
A labor-history episode that moves from reel repair and racetrack work to the cost of strikebreaking.
Labor History Today moves from a Baton Rouge reel-repair shop to a racetrack groom's working life, then turns to two deadly strike-era moments. It carries a plainspoken labor-history weight, and the oral histories keep the episode grounded in people rather than commemoration.
Why you'd press play
For when you want labor history told through working hands, not abstractions.
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