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.
Solidarity Forever
Provides information on labor issues and laws. Includes solidarity songs.
The Internationale
Lyrics to the workers' anthem in 40 languages.
Songs of Struggle
Lyrics to leftist folk songs in several languages.
Labor Heritage Foundation
A non-profit organization working to strengthen the labor movement through the use of music, art and culture.
New Deal Network
Online educational guide to the Roosevelt Administration and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Labor Poetry and Issues in Prose
Down But Not Out is a collection of poems that deals with unemployment in human terms.
Child Labor Photographs by Lewis W. Hine
480 photos taken for the National Child Labor Committee in 1908-1912 with their original captions, indices by occupation and state, and historical and biographical information.
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.
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.
Left-Wing Films
A list of films with a left-wing political message, on topics ranging from feminism to the environment, race and class.
CommieWear - fighting fire with fire
Sells clothing with left-wing themes, images and slogans over the internet.
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.
Songs of Irish Labour
Songs of the Irish labour movement, including text, photos and sound files
Sheffield Socialist Choir
Tapes, CDs, songbooks and information about the choir organised by the Workers' Education Association in Sheffield, UK.
Earl Dotter, labor photographer
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.
The Labor Movement
Songs of work and struggle.
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.
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.
Mayworks
Information about the festival of working people and the arts in Toronto.
General Strike
Presents information about past and current general strikes around the world.
Kate Mullaney and the Troy Laundry Workers
Historical account of organizing the Collarworkers Union in 1865.
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