Circle time with Mr. Cork
The Baltimore Museum of Industry celebrates the dignity of work, and can provide a forum for exploring such issues as workers’ rights and workplace equity, providing historical context for contemporary issues that impact our community.
Read moreMakers Unite! Baltimore Makers’ Response to COVID-19
The Baltimore Museum of Industry celebrates the dignity of work, and can provide a forum for exploring such issues as workers’ rights and workplace equity, providing historical context for contemporary issues that impact our community.
Read moreWriters LIVE! Alec MacGillis
About the Book From the publishers: Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land […]
Read moreDocumenting the Fall of Bethlehem Steel
A Zoom conversation with J. M. Giordano The Baltimore Museum of Industry kicked off a virtual road trip for members on July 2: “Documenting the Fall of Bethlehem Steel,” a conversation with Baltimore-based photojournalist J. M. Giordano and BMI Research Historian Joseph Abel. Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:30 pm Zoom Watch the recording on YouTube […]
Read moreWorkplace Matters: Unions + Workers’ Safety During the Pandemic
Unions + Workers’ Safety During the Pandemic The Baltimore Museum of Industry partnered with leaders from the Maryland & DC AFL-CIO for a conversation about the role of unions during the pandemic. What protections are in place, and how can unions ensure all working people are treated fairly in the era of COVID-19? Wednesday, September […]
Read moreWorkplace Matters: Migrant Worker Women in Maryland’s Crab Industry
About the Presenters Moderator Lindsey Baker is the Executive Director of Maryland Humanities and co-founder of Baker Cruz Services. She has a Master’s in History and Museum Studies from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor’s in History from Goucher College. Emilia Guevara is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Maryland, College […]
Read moreWorkplace Matters: Systemic Racism + Economic Opportunities
Systemic Racism + Economic Opportunities The Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Industry partnered on a Zoom webinar about systemic racism in the workplace. During this moment of national reckoning around issues of race, the program examined workplace race, equity, and inclusion initiatives underway here in Baltimore. Wednesday, October 28, 2020 7:00 […]
Read moreInvisible Labor
About the Partners and the Program The Stoop Storytelling Series is a Baltimore-based live show and podcast that features “ordinary” people sharing the extraordinary, true tales of their lives. The mission of The Stoop is to build community through the sharing of personal stories. Stoop stories are not memorized, performed, or read. They’re shared. Stoop […]
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