28: Frances Perkins Fights For Workers Rights (Part 1)

An Old Timey Podcast

True Crime, History, Comedy

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. She’s the reason we have Social Security. She led the fight to end child labor, to establish a minimum wage and to create the 40-hour work week. In this episode, we find out how this remarkable woman got her start. Did it help that her birth name was Fanny??? Possibly! Bad names build character!

Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Kristin pulled from:
The documentary, “Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare.”
The book, “The Woman Behind the New Deal,” by Kirstin Downey
The Frances Perkins Center website

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0:30.0	Here ye, hear ye. You are listening to an old-timey podcast.
0:36.0	I'm Kristen Caruso.
0:38.0	And I'm her lovey-dovey hubby-wubby, it's Normi Sea.
0:41.0	Gross, and on this episode I'll be talking about the first woman to serve on a presidential
0:46.7	cabinet.
0:47.7	Oh, historical.
0:50.1	Yeah, well obviously it's an old timey podcast, Norm.
0:53.6	An old timey podcast, history podcast.
0:57.0	Hey, why did you say gross when I said I was your lovey-dovey hubby-wubby?
1:02.4	I think it goes without saying frankly. I'm hurt, frankly.
1:06.0	Okay, well why don't you cry about it you lovey-dubby-hubby-hovey-huh-huh. Talk to a tele-tubby ha-ha-ha. That was cute. I'm in a weird mood. I will confess.
1:15.0	Yeah, you mentioned that before we started a recording and I said, we know what, we're just going to work it out on the podcast.
1:21.0	We're to work through your feelings during the episode where you tell us about the first
1:25.7	female presidential cabinet person.
1:28.6	Yeah, I don't know that we will work it out. I mean, I'll try try my best but I'm just all kinds of
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