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Labor Heritage Foundation  - http://laborheritage.org  A non-profit organization working to strengthen the labor movement through the use of music, art and culture.  New Deal Network  - http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm  Online educational guide to the Roosevelt Administration and the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Earl Dotter, labor photographer  - http://www.earldotter.com/  Award-winning photojournalist Earl Dotter has documented the working lives of Americans for nearly 30 years from the Appalachian coal fields through many industries and regions.  LaborFest Detroit  - http://www.laborfestdetroit.org/  Celebrates the contributions of unions and working people to our society through music, exhibits, children's activities, and more every Labor Day in Detroit.  Kate Mullaney and the Troy Laundry Workers  - http://www1.minn.net/~nup/2apr93.htm  Historical account of organizing the Collarworkers Union in 1865.  Union Songs  - http://crixa.com/muse/unionsong/  Songs that helped build trade unions over the past 200 years. Workers songs, songs of labor, strike songs, picket line songs, songs against unemployment and poverty.  The Labor Movement  - http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/labor.html  Songs of work and struggle.  Solidarity Forever  - http://home.earthlink.net/~solidarity/  Provides information on labor issues and laws. Includes solidarity songs.  Child Labor Photographs by Lewis W. Hine  - http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/nclc/index.html  480 photos taken for the National Child Labor Committee in 1908-1912 with their original captions, indices by occupation and state, and historical and biographical information.  Songs for the Working Children: Poems from the Campaign to End Child Labor  - http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/songs.html  Poems protesting the abuse of child labor for the sake of machines, industry, commerce, and fashionable clothes, published from 1902-1914.  Labor Poetry and Issues in Prose  - http://www.DownIsNotOut.homestead.com  Down But Not Out is a collection of poems that deals with unemployment in human terms.  CommieWear - fighting fire with fire  - http://www.commiewear.com  Sells clothing with left-wing themes, images and slogans over the internet.  The Internationale  - http://home.wxs.nl/~elder180/internationale  Lyrics to the workers' anthem in 40 languages.  Left-Wing Films  - http://www.changesurfer.com/Acad/Films.html  A list of films with a left-wing political message, on topics ranging from feminism to the environment, race and class.  A little page on The Internationale  - http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~yan/int/int.html  Everything you wanted to know about the Workers' Anthem including lyrics in a variety of languages and sound files.  Mayworks  - http://www.mayworks.ca/  Information about the festival of working people and the arts in Toronto.  The Red Flag: the song, the man, the monument  - http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/connell.htm  Website on the song The Red Flag, Jim Connell (1852-1929) who wrote it and the monument erected in Crossakiel County Meath Ireland in 1998. The site includes text, photos and a sound file of all 6 verses of the song.  Sheffield Socialist Choir  - http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~matt/choir/ssc.html  Tapes, CDs, songbooks and information about the choir organised by the Workers' Education Association in Sheffield, UK.  Songs of Irish Labour  - http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/lsongs.htm  Songs of the Irish labour movement, including text, photos and sound files  Songs of Struggle  - http://home.wxs.nl/~elder180/strijdlied  Lyrics to leftist folk songs in several languages.  Bread and Roses: Poetry and History of the American Labor Movement  - http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/history/index.html  Poems celebrating workers struggles and books and articles about the history of the American labor movement from the early 1800s to the 1920s.  General Strike  - http://www.sonic.net/~figgins/generalstrike/index.html  Presents information about past and current general strikes around the world.  American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements  - http://www.laborstudies.wayne.edu/ASA/  Includes information about the section, its mandate, annual meeting, and the general activities and members. Also links to key labor unions, organizations, associations, federations, and online resources.