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Organized to promote a singing labor movement, People’s Songs published a monthly bulletin for three years beginning in 1946. Featuring songs, stories, news, and reviews, the bulletin was designed to create a library of folk and topical songs for…

Sing Out!: The Folk Song Magazine, 25 th anniversary issue, 1976:
Successor publication to People’s Songs Bulletin, Sing Out! first appeared
in 1950 and is now in its sixty-ninth year. This anniversary issue features
“songs of labor struggle,”…

Local 34 Songbook: Collection of songs from UNITE HERE Local 34’s
(clerical and technical workers) historic 1984-85 strike against Yale
University, during which “a low-paid, mostly female and minority workforce
challenged a wealthy and…

They’ll Never Keep Us Down: Women’s Coal Mining Songs.
Mostly contemporary songs affirming the roles of women—as the wives
and daughters of miners or as miners themselves—in the tradition of
resistance and union activism within coal communities.

Step by Step, and Gonna Build a Union, sung by the Pipets,
the employee singing group of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical
Workers/AFSCME (HUCTW). Songs include labor standards and parodies of
popular songs. Like the clerical and…