In light of the anti-union
legislation/sentiment that has been sweeping the country, I've been researching the protest songs that have galvanized workers for over a century.
It is hard to imagine the labor movement, or the civil rights movement,
without the powerful music that has accompanied it. Here is the second entry of Last Throes' new series, Songs for the Struggle: Music of the Labor
Movement.
Florence
Reece was a folk singer and labor activist from Sharps Chapel,
Tennessee. She performs her song, "Which Side Are You On?," written
during the United Mine Workers strike in 1931.
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