Eight hour day pete seeger biography

          The eight-hour-day movement was a focused mobilization of the American and European labor movements in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

          Peter Seeger (May 3, – January 27, ) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist....

          American Industrial Ballads

          1956 studio album by Pete Seeger

          American Industrial Ballads is a studio album by American folk singer Pete Seeger.

          It was released in 1956 by Folkways Records. It was reissued in 1992 by Smithsonian Folkways.

          This song captures the energy of the movement for the 8 hour workday—an issue at the heart of the Haymarket Riots in Chicago.

        1. This song captures the energy of the movement for the 8 hour workday—an issue at the heart of the Haymarket Riots in Chicago.
        2. When I was 15, I learned to play guitar from Pete Seeger.
        3. Peter Seeger (May 3, – January 27, ) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist.
        4. Born May 3 to Charles and Constance Seeger, music professors whose families traced their ancestry back to the Mayflower.
        5. We're brave and gallant miner boys, who work in underground.

          6. Album

          Seeger sings songs of struggle which emerged from the coal mines, textile mills and acres of farmland, and spoke of issues important to the American laborer. There are twenty-four songs, written about the unprecedented industrialization of the 19th century, including "Peg and Awl", "The Farmer is the Man", and "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues".

          Irwin Silber's notes provide a history of labor folk song and its role in American popular music.[1] The cover design for the 1992 reissue was done by Carol Hardy.[2]

          Critical reception

          Writing for Allmusic William Ruhlman wrote "Seeger presents the songs straightforwardly with only occasional flourishes, intent on getting the meanings across." He continued, "Taken t