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Topia!: Society: Work: Labor Movement: Culture (27)
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New Deal Network - Online educational guide to the Roosevelt Administration and the Great Depression of the 1930s. 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. LaborFest Detroit - Celebrates the contributions of unions and working people to our society through music, exhibits, children's activities, and more every Labor Day in Detroit. Los Angeles at Work (1920 - 1939) - On line photo exhibit from the LA Public Library. Kate Mullaney and the Troy Laundry Workers - Historical account of organizing the Collarworkers Union in 1865. 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. The Labor Movement - Songs of work and struggle. American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements - Includes information about the section, its mandate , annual meeting information, and the general activities of the section and its members. Also links to key labor unions, organizations, associations, federations, and online resources. Solidarity Forever - Provides information on labor issues and laws. Includes solidarity songs. 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. 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. Labor Poetry and Issues in Prose - Down But Not Out is a collection of poems that deals with unemployment in human terms. The Catbox Times - An index to people's songs online - hard-hitting folk music that confronts, bypasses, or just doesn't fit into the corporate order of things. CommieWear - fighting fire with fire - Sells clothing with left-wing themes, images and slogans over the internet. The Internationale - Lyrics to the workers' anthem in 40 languages. Left-Wing Films - A list of films with a left-wing political message, on topics ranging from feminism to the environment, race and class. 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. Mayworks - Information about the festival of working people and the arts in Toronto. 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. The Scarlet Banner: Songs of Socialism and Solidarity - Left wing MP3 music you can download for free. Sheffield Socialist Choir - Tapes, CDs, songbooks and information about the choir organised by the Workers' Education Association in Sheffield, UK. Songs - Real audio of several left-wing songs including "The Oakey Strike Evictions", "Ballad of Accounting" and "My Granddad Was A Docker". Songs of Irish Labour - Songs of the Irish labour movement, including text, photos and sound files Songs of Struggle - Lyrics to leftist folk songs in several languages. 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. General Strike - Presents information about past and current general strikes around the world.
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