Songs of Solidarity
This playlist illustrates a variety of labor music available to promote solidarity and union principles within the union memberships and to bystanders.
- Union Maid
From Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Concert (Clearwater Concert), Madison Square Garden, 5/3/09. Featuring Billy Bragg, Mike & Ruthy Merenda, Dar Williams, New York City Labor Chorus. - 9 to 5
Dolly Parton's official music video for '9 to 5'. - There is Power In The Union - Utah Phillips
- There Is Power In A Union - Billy Bragg
- Bread and Roses - Joan Baez
- Talking Union and Other Union Songs - The Almanac Singers
- Which Side Are You On - Pete Seeger
- Which Side Are You On - Florence Reece
- Dump The Bosses Off Your Back - Utah Phillips
- Roll The Union On by John L. Handcox
- Mr. Block - Joe Glazer
- Coal Tattoo - Hazel Dickens
- The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
- Joe Hill - Paul Robeson
- Solidarity Forever - Pete Seeger and The Almanac Singers
This is "Solidarity Forever", the powerful "national anthem" of the U.S. labor movement, recorded in 1941 by Pete Seeger and The Almanac Singers, and is contained on their album "Talkin' Union" - Union Town - Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
- De Colores - Baldemar Velásquez & Aguila
- Step By Step - Sweet Honey in the Rock
- Three Miles Down - Gil Scott-Heron
- All I Want is Union - Hootenanny with Pete Seeger
- All I Want is Union - Willis James on
Afro-American Music: A Demonstration Recording - I Am A Union Woman - Rosalie Sorrels
- Huelga En General - Los Lobos, Carmen Moreno, TIERRA
- Mother Jones' Will - Nimrod Workman
Coal miner, union activist, and singer Nimrod Workman performs one of his original topical compositions, "Mother Jones' Will." Shot by Alan Lomax and crew at Nimrod and Molly Workman's home in Mascot, Tennessee, July 26, 1983. - Union Man - Albert Morgan
Sung and composed by Albert Morgan. Recorded in the Newkirk Tunnel Mine in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, by George Korson, 1946. - Union Burying Ground - Woody Guthrie
- The Preacher and The Slave - Joe Hill ; played by Harry K. McClintock
- They'll Never Keep Us Down - Hazel Dickens on Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner's Struggle
- MAKHNES GEYEN - שיר†פועלים†באידיש FREE VOICE OF LABOR-THE JEWISH ANARCHISTS
- Cotton Mill Girl: A Tribute to Hedy West -- Hedy West
A video composition featuring Hedy West performing "Cotton Mill Girl" on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest with historical photographs. - Corrido de César Chávez - Los Perros del Pueblo Nuevo on Rolas de Aztlán: Songs of the Chicano Movement
- Down on the Picket Line - Sarah Ogan Gunning on Girl of Constant Sorrow
- Sit Down - Manhattan Chorus
The Manhattan Chorus sings Maurice Sugar's "Sit Down." Recorded in April, 1937, shortly after the successful sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, that helped the United Auto Workers union organize General Motors. - Ludlow Massacre - Woody Guthrie
Refers to the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families inLudlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914 - It's Better with a Union Man - Harold Rome; Pins and Needles Ensemble
- King Harvest (Has Surely Come) - The Band (The Band 12 of 12)
- Victory Song of the Dressmakers - Tune: Song of the Vagabonds; Lyrics: Emily B. Fine