Timothy P. Lynch – Strike Songs of the Depression

Labor and radical movements rise and fall, causes come and go, but the issues that workers face are ever with us. Not everyone benefits from the information revolution, and ecological disaster may overwhelm us before class-strugle issues are resolved. 

I would like to think that Strike Songs of the Depression will help Mississippi catfish processors and Silicon Valley assemblers, as well as dedicated labor-lore buffs, to define their place in the new millennium, for we read history books as a guide to our future rather than a map of past terrain." 

—Archie Green author of Calfs Head and Union Tale: Labor terms at Work and Play 

"Timothy P. Lynch's Strike Songs of the Depression documents the importance of music during some of the greatest strikes in American labor history. The book reveals that the very act of singing was central to a worker culture of solidarity, and that the lyrics often expressed deep ideological assumptions about class and gender. This is a fine and well-written work of history." 

—Elliott J. Gorn author of Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America