Working-Class Heroes: History of Struggle in Song A Songbook youth

Working-Class Heroes: History of Struggle in Song A Songbook youthEditors: Mat Callahan ; Yvonne Moore Publisher: PM Press Working Class Heroes is an organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life. And among them will be workers who share an insight: in order to better our lot, we must act collectively to change the world. This profusely illustrated treasury of song sheets, lyrics,

and ultimately the sound of modern music

and post-Katrina America in articles and essays on subjects ranging from Charlie Chan movies to the life and work of Norman Mailer

the girl is mocked by classmates for being poor

Including such luminaries as Yves Béhar

Illustrated by: Conrad Roset

False Start)

Dante to Patricia Lockwood

COLD IRONS BOUND

spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello

Two hundred years later

Billy Dee Williams

as well as the importance of letting honesty