Since the Industrial Revolution, working people have been organizing and campaigning for better treatment from their employers. The labor movement and its unions struggle for fair wages, safe working conditions, and many other benefits. Music is an important tool in the labor movement to motivate workers and help build solidarity. Labor songs detail political issues, glorify martyrs and heroes in the movement, and, most of all, inspire and uplift workers.
Joe Glazer (1918–2006), often called Labor's Troubadour, has spent a lifetime as one of America's noted historians of labor song. His booming baritone and exuberant guitar have performed exuberantly for millions of workers, strikers, and students. (folkways.si.edu)

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Joe Glazer - Songs of Joe Hill 1954
(Folkways Records 2006)

 1. Joe Hill
 2. We Will Sing One Song
 3. Scissor Bill
 4. Mr. Block
 5. The Rebel Girl
 6. The Preacher and the Slave (Pie in the Sky)
 7. There Is Power in a Union
 8. Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
 9. The Tramp
10. Joe Hill’s Last Will