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American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements
Includes information about the section, its mandate, annual meeting, and the general activities and members. Also links to key labor unions, organizations, associations, federations, and online resources.
http://www.laborstudies.wayne.edu/ASA/
Labor Poetry and Issues in Prose
Down But Not Out is a collection of poems that deals with unemployment in human terms.
http://www.downisnotout.homestead.com/
Solidarity Forever
Provides information on labor issues and laws. Includes solidarity songs.
http://home.earthlink.net/~solidarity/
Union Songs
Songs that helped build trade unions over the past 200 years. Workers songs, songs of labor, strike songs, picket line songs, songs against unemployment and poverty.
http://crixa.com/muse/unionsong/
Songs for the Working Children: Poems from the Campaign to End Child Labor
Poems protesting the abuse of child labor for the sake of machines, industry, commerce, and fashionable clothes, published from 1902-1914.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/songs.ht...
General Strike
Presents information about past and current general strikes around the world.
http://www.sonic.net/~figgins/generalstrik...
Songs of Irish Labour
Songs of the Irish labour movement, including text, photos and sound files
http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/lsongs.ht...
The Labor Movement
Songs of work and struggle.
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2...
CommieWear - fighting fire with fire
Sells clothing with left-wing themes, images and slogans over the internet.
http://www.commiewear.com
Sheffield Socialist Choir
Tapes, CDs, songbooks and information about the choir organised by the Workers' Education Association in Sheffield, UK.
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~matt/choir/ssc....
Mayworks
Information about the festival of working people and the arts in Toronto.
http://www.mayworks.ca/
Bread and Roses: Poetry and History of the American Labor Movement
Poems celebrating workers struggles and books and articles about the history of the American labor movement from the early 1800s to the 1920s.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/history/...
Child Labor Photographs by Lewis W. Hine
480 of Hine's photographs for the National Child Labor Committee of children working in mills, mines, factories, fields, and city streets. Includes his original captions.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/nclc/i...
New Deal Network
Online educational guide to the Roosevelt Administration and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm
The Red Flag: the song, the man, the monument
Website on the song The Red Flag, Jim Connell (1852-1929) who wrote it and the monument erected in Crossakiel County Meath Ireland in 1998. The site includes text, photos and a sound file of all 6 verses of the song.
http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/connell.h...
A little page on The Internationale
Everything you wanted to know about the Workers' Anthem including lyrics in a variety of languages and sound files.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~yan/int/int.htm...
Labor Heritage Foundation
A non-profit organization working to strengthen the labor movement through the use of music, art and culture.
http://laborheritage.org
Left-Wing Films
A list of films with a left-wing political message, on topics ranging from feminism to the environment, race and class.
http://www.changesurfer.com/Acad/Films.htm...
Earl Dotter, Photojournalist
Award-winning photojournalist Earl Dotter has documented the working lives of Americans for nearly 30 years from the Appalachian coal fields through many industries and regions.
http://www.earldotter.com/
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