When celebrated Wobbly troubadour Joe Hill purportedly visited the Rossland Miners’ Hall in the early 1900s to lend his support to the first Canadian local of the rugged Western Federation of Miners (WFM), he no doubt shared some of his inspired verses with the mine workers who are said to have protected him. The overarching goal of this research is to advocate the importance of labor song documentation and preservation for future research purposes and for preserving working class culture, history, and identity as they provide an alternative historical viewpoint and other invaluable information. Most published literature covers a period spanning the 1900s to the 1950s and is primarily American and British centric. This review reveals that there is an impoverished amount of published literature about labor songs and a need for more documentation that is active, preservation, and research. The study also contemplates how to permanently reinvigorate academic interest in this topic. This research answers the following questions: whether the performance and composing of labor songs is dead within the twenty-first century and whether labor songs are a topic worthy of study in academia. This study is a comprehensive literature review examining labor songs within trade unions, the labor movement, and in strike contexts.
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