August 30, 2014: Labor

Somehow, a lot of people don't seem to know that LABOR day is about... LABOR. And not just... beer or whatever. So this show attempts to clear that up a bit with some songs about labor history, work, economic inequities, and straight up Communism. Enjoy yr holiday hot dog, capitalist swine!

Playlist:

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening Theme Song)

The New Singers - The Internationale

Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death

Ron Angel - Chemical Worker's Song

Chumbawamba - Fitzwilliam

Cast of Pins & Needles - It's Better with a Union Man

Proletariat - Religion is the Opium of the Masses

Sonny Boy Williamson - Trying to Get Back on My Feet Again

Pete Seeger - Homestead Strike Song

Louvin Brothers - I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow

Chumbawamba - One by One

Sara Ogan Gunning - I'm Going to Organize Baby

American Quartet - On the 5:15

Cast of the Pajama Game - Seven and a Half Cents

Gang of Four - Capital (It Fails Us Now)

Joe Glazer - The Preacher and the Slave

Chumbawamba - Idris Strike Song

Almanac Singers - Which Side Are You On

Lost Generation - Never Work

The Clash - Career Opportunities

Big Boys - Work

Caustic Christ - Government Job

Zounds - Subvert

Minutemen - The Product

Chumbawamba - The Triumph of General Ludd

Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons

Lee Dorsey - Working in a Coal Mine

Phil Ochs - Automation Song

The Pogues - Navigator

Woody Guthrie - Union Burying Ground

Chumbawamba - Diggers Song

Gil Scott-Heron - Three Miles Down

Earl Robinson - Joe Hill

Chumbawamba - Poverty Knock

The Almanac Singers - Union Maid

Poison Idea - Just to Get Away