![]() | Salt of the Earth
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.05 In addition to the main story about a labor fight, this movie also portrays domestic (gender) oppression and racial division--particularly, how the bosses exploit each one in order to divide and defeat workers.
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![]() | The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in the American Cold War by James J. Lorence
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $6.16 Though it is just a fictional story of a simple labor strike, it became, by some accounts, the only film EVER blacklisted in the U.S.
http://www.culturevulture.net/books/Suppression.htm
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![]() | Harlan County, U.S.A. - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $23.38 Yeah, it's expensive--find a copy at a public library.
The scene where a New York City cop talks with a West Virginia coal miner who is picketing Wall Street is pretty awesome. ;)
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![]() | Matewan
Buy used from: $48.70 I actually haven't seen this one yet. I've heard good stuff about it.
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![]() | Norma Rae
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.93 In a lot of ways, a modern day Salt of the Earth, although a way more Hollywoodized version. Includes a lot of the same themes as SOTE. Worth watching.
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![]() | Office Space - Special Edition with Flair (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.85 F*ckin' A.
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![]() | The Take
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.86 Documentary on the movement among workers in Argentina to take over and self-manage factories that get closed down in the wake of economic "restructuring". An interesting model of how the industrial sector would work under socialism and workers' control.
If workers' self-management is your interest, I suggest you read up on the economy of Yugoslavia under Tito.
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![]() | The Wobblies
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $18.15 One Big Union!
"By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old."
http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml
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![]() | The Internationale
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $12.19 The international working class anthem.
Too bad I haven't found an equally good film on the history of May Day. :(
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![]() | The Internationale by Billy Bragg
Buy used from: $0.78 "The workers' flag is deepest red"
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![]() | Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg by Billy Bragg
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $13.99 Songs like "There Is Power in a Union", "The World Turned Upside Down", and lots more.
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![]() | Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon by Various Artists
Buy used from: $1.92 |
![]() | If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle by Pete Seeger
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.98 A whole CD of his labor songs.
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![]() | A Link in the Chain by Pete Seeger
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $6.42 |
![]() | Bruce Springsteen-We Shall Overcome-The Seeger Sessions (Pvg) by Pete Seeger Bruce Springsteen
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $20.47 |
![]() | This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 by Woody Guthrie
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.68 A time capsule, includes some good labor tunes.
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![]() | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.29 Mostly anti-war stuff.
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![]() | Essential Clash by The Clash
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.05 Songs like "Career Opportunities", "Cheat", "Clampdown" (which draws a parallel between Nazi Germany's SA brownshirt thugs and bosses at work), "The Magnificent Seven" (which actually references the labor theory of value).
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![]() | Creedence Clearwater Revival by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Buy new: $37.47 / Used from: $45.00 Songs like "Fortunate Son", "The Working Man", "Wrote a Song for Everyone", "The Midnight Special".
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![]() | One Man Revolution by The Nightwatchman
Buy used from: $6.00 "Union Song", and all the rest too.
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![]() | The Fabled City by Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Buy used from: $7.43 See Tom live if you possibly can. He puts on an unbelievable show as the Nightwatchman.
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![]() | Rebel Voices: Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World by Various Artists
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.00 |
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