Labor and Culture in America

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
- Woody Guthrie, folk singer and labor advocate

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Labor and Culture

• Unions, Union Busters, and Unionism at the Movies 
  Films from the 1920s to the present dealing with unionism and labor
   
• Working Class Heroes: Art and the labor movement in the U.S. 
  A collection of exhibits and photographs related to organized labor
   
• Books on Labor and Labor History
  • The Point of Pittsburgh: Production and Struggle at the Forks of the Ohio 
    Author - Charles McCollester
  • Fighter With a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice Pittsburgh Labor Priest 
  • Meet You In Hell - Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
  • Steel Town 
     
• Music Collections
  • Labor Songs
    A collection of downloadable mp3s compiled by the American Labor Studies Center
  • Union songs
    Lyrics to more than 700 union songs and poems
  • The Unbroken Circle 
    Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields
  • "Which Side Are You On?" 
    2008 radio program on American pro-union songs of the early 20th century.
  • American Son 
    Stories of hard-working Americans trying to bear up under the burden of unemployment as their hometowns deteriorate
  • When We Shine 
    15 Songs About Pittsburgh
    
• Assembly Ideas/Visiting Authors
  • Tom Breiding, Artist/Producer/Songwriter
    www.tombreiding.com
  • Jonah Winter, Author of Steel Town
    http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Jonah-Winter

 
Labor Songs

Which Side Are You On?

 

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