In the United States, Labor Day is the first Monday in September. Elsewhere in the world, it is generally celebrated on May 1st. See also miners.
Do You Know Slim Evans? - \ Maria Dunn \ We Were Good People (2004) \ Self (Distant Whisper Music)
Troublemaker \ Maria Dunn \ We Were Good People (2004) \ Self (Distant Whisper Music)
From The Bread Line to the Front Line \ Maria Dunn \ We Were Good People (2004) \ Self (Distant Whisper Music)
The Lingan Strike \ Maria Dunn \ For A Song (2001) \ Self (Distant Whisper Music)
Liz Carroll & John Doyle \ A Pound a Week Rise \ Double Play \ Compass
Please look through Utah Phillips, Tom Glazer and Joe Jencks and please also
consider:
"If You Want A Better Life" by Peggy Seeger and led by Billy Bragg with
Peggy and friends and family on Three Score & Ten, Appleseed 1100, First CD Band
12 (2:58)
and from Si Kahn
"Mamma Was A Union Woman" by Si Kahn on We're Still Here Strictly Country
Music, SCR-57, Band 16 (2:46) and and the classic
"Solidarity Forever" on Carry It On with Jane Sapp and Pete Seeger.
[social security]
Rosalie Sorrels\ Social Security\ Report From Grimes Creek\ Green Linnet
Rosalie Sorrels and Utah Phillips\ Bury Me In My Overalls\ The Long Memory\ Red House
Social Security Song \ JOE GLAZER \ Jellybean Blues \ Collector
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse \ FLATT & SCRUGGS \ Songs of Complaint &
Protest \ Library of Congress
Banks of Marble \ THE WEAVERS \ Songs for Political Action v 10 \ Bear Family
Old Age Pension Check \ ROY ACUFF \ & Smoky Mountain Boys \ Rounder
What about Us \ TOM PACHECO \ There Was a Time \ Appleseed
[ones I have played in the past on Labor Day]
Alice Stuart\ Hard Time Killin' Floor\ Can't Find No Heaven\ Burnside
Allette Brooks\ Silicon Valley Rebel\ Silicon Valley Rebel\ Self
Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips\ Joe Hill\ Fellow Workers\ Righteous Babe
Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips\ The Internationale\ Fellow Workers\ Righteous Babe
Ani DiFranco\ This Land is Your Land\ Steal This Movie soundtrack\ Artemis
Anne Feeney\ Joe Hill\ Have You Been To Jail for Justice?\ Self
Anne Feeney\ We Just Come to Work Here\ Look to the Left\ Super88
Anne Hills\ Sound of the Looms\ Angle of the Light\ Flying Fish
Artisan\ The Iron Road\ Rocking at the End of Time\ Bedspring
Bill Morrissey\ Closed Down Mill\ You'll Never Get to Heaven\ Philo
Bill Morrissey\ Oil Money\ Bill Morrissey\ Philo
Blue Highway\ Union Man\ Still Climbing Mountains\ Rounder
Bob Dylan\ Maggie's Farm\ Bringing It All Back Home\ Columbia
Bob Dylan\ Only a Pawn in their Game\ The Times They Are A-Changin'\ Columbia
Bob Gibson\ The Man Who Turns The Damn Thing Off and On\ Makin' A Mess\ Asylum
Bruce Molsky\ Peg and Awl\ Poor Man's Troubles\ Rounder
Charlie King\ Buy Buy This American Car\ Food Phone Gas Lodging\ Flying Fish
Dar Williams\ Bought and Sold\ End of the Summer\ Razor & Tie
Dave Alvin\ Railroad Bill\ Public Domain\ Hightone
Dave Moore\ Waitresses\ Over My Shoulder\ Red House
David Francey\ Working Poor\ Torn Screen Door\ Laker
Deborah Holland\ I Am A Union Woman\ The Panic is On\ Gadfly
Dick Gaughan\ Workers' Song\ Handful of Earth\ Green Linnet
Dick Gaughan\ World Turned Upside Down\ Handful of Earth\ Green Linnet
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver\ Poor Boy Working Blues\ The Hard Game of Love\ Sugar Hill
Dylan-Thomas Vance\ Rat Race / Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms\ Bittersweet\ Triple M
Elaine Purkey\ Labor's Got Its Hands in Its Pockets\Mountain Music, Mountain Struggle\ Marimac
Elaine Purkey\ Wayfarin' Worker\ Mountain Music, Mountain Struggle\ Marimac
Enoch Kent \ I'm A Workin' Chap\ I'm A Workin' Chap\ Second Avenue
Eve Goldberg\ Rosie the Riveter\ Crossing the Water\ Borealis
Fred Eaglesmith & The Flathead Noodlers\ John Deere 'B'\ Balin\ AML
Gibson & Camp\ John Henry, The Thinking Man\ Revisited\ Folk Era
Guy Clark\ The Carpenter\ Craftsman\ Philo
Guy Davis - Pay Day - Legacy - Red House Records
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard\ Working Girl Blues\ Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard\ Rounder
Hazel Dickens\ Old Calloused Hands\ A Few Old Memories\ Rounder
Holly Near\ Working Woman\ Fire in the Rain\ Redwood
Hoyt Axton / Gotta Keep Rollin' / Boney Fingers
Ian Tyson\ Summer Wages\ Cowboyography\ Vanguard
Jim & Jesse\ Cotton Mill Man\ The Old Dominion Masters\ Pinecastle
Jim Page\ Gettin Squeezed\ Live and Then Some\ self
Jim Page\ Valdez\ More Than Anything Else in the World\ self
Jim Page\ Whose World Is This\ Human Interesting\ Whid-Isle
Jimmie Rodgers\ No Hard Times\ No Hard Times\ Rounder
Joe Jencks\ Deportee\ I Hear Your Voice\ Turtle Bear
Joe Jencks\ Rise as One\ I Hear Your Voice\ Turtle Bear
John Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat\ The Truckdriver's Song\ The Young Man From Canada\ self
John Gorka\ Land of the Bottom Line\ Land of the Bottom Line\ Windham Hill
Johnny Collins\ Go to Work on Monday\ Pedlar of Songs\ self
Kate MacLeod\ Welfare Line\ Trying To Get It Right\ Festival
Kate Rusby\ The Cobbler's Daughter\ Sleepless\ Compass
Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch\ Everybody's Working For The Man Again…\ You Can't Save Everybody\ Compass
Laurie Lewis\ Hard Luck and Trouble\ And her Bluegrass Pals\ Rounder
Linda Allen\ The Way the Wind Blows\ The Long Way Home\ Self
Lonnie Johnson\ Chicago Blues\ He's a Jelly Roll Baker\ Bluebird
Lou and Peter Berryman\ Family Car\ The Pink One\ Cornbelt
Magpie\ Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues\ Working My Life Away\ Collector
Peggy Seeger\ Gonna Be An Engineer\ The Folkways Years\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Pete Seeger\ Eight Hour Day\ American Industrial Ballads\ Smithsonion/Folkways
Pete Seeger\ I've Been Working on the Railroad\ American Favorite Ballads\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Pete Seeger\ Joe Hill\ If I Had a Hammer\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Pete Seeger\ Talking Union\ If I Had a Hammer\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Peter, Paul & Mary\ Union Medley\ In These Times\ Rhino
Ralph Stanley\ The Death of John Henry\ Ralph Stanley\ Columbia
Rebel Voices\ Day Care\ Warning: Women at Work\ self
Rebel Voices\ Which Side Are You On?\ Warning Women at Work\ self
Richard Shindell\ Che Guevara T-Shirt\ Vuelta\ Koch
Si Kahn\ Aragon Mill\ New Wood\ Philo
Si Kahn\ Blue Jeans for You, Brown Lung for Me\ Threads\ Double Time
Stan Rogers\ The White Collar Holler\ Between the Breaks…Live!\ Fogarty's Cove
Stan Rogers - The Idiot - NORTHWEST PASSAGE/Fogarty's Cove
Steve Goodman\ Unemployed\ Words We Can Dance To\ Red Pajamas
Terence Martin\ Bethlehem\ Sleeper\ Good Dog
Tim Grimm\ Better Days\ Heart Land\ Vault
Tim O'Brien\ Maggie's Farm\ Red on Blonde\ Sugar Hill
Tom Paxton & Anne Hills\ Carry It On\ Under American Skies\ Appleseed
Tom Russell Band\ U.S. Steel\ Road to Bayamon (LP)\ Philo
Townes Van Zandt\ White Freightliner Blues\ Rear View Mirror\ Sugar Hill
Utah Phillips & Ani Difranco\ Direct Action\ Fellow Workers\ Righteous Babe
Utah Phillips & Mark Ross\ All Used Up\ Loafer's Glory\ Red House
Utah Phillips & Mark Ross\ Moffit Tunnel\ Loafer's Glory\ Red House
Utah Phillips\ Job Action\ The Moscow Hold\ Red House
Utah Phillips\ There is Power in a Union\ We Have Fed You For a Thousand Years (LP)\ Vancouver
Woody Guthrie\ Farmer-Labor Train\ Hard Travelin'\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Woody Guthrie\ Struggle Blues\ Struggle\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Woody Guthrie\ Talking Centralia\ Long Ways to Travel\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Woody Guthrie\ Talking Columbia\ Long Ways to Travel\ Smithsonian/Folkways
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