In honor of Labor Day I've collected some rare and some better-known songs about the labor struggle. Today many of us take for granted the great strides made by the labor movement to give us so many of the benefits we take for granted. We'll hear music from Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Utah Philips, Maria Dunn and many more. We'll celebrate the true meaning of the end of summer holiday … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Jody Kruskal & Luke Richardson / “Waiting for the Boatsman” / Waiting for the Boatsman / JKM

Merle Travis / “Sixteen Tons” / Folksongs of the Hills / Capitol

Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur / “Down on Penny's Farm” / Penny's Farm / Kingswood

Dan Schatz / “Gone Gonna Rise Again” / The Promise of Sowing / Folk Legacy

Pete Sutherland / “Coleman's March-Shacks and Chalets” / Poor Man's Dream / Epact

Pete Seeger and the Hooteneers / “All I Want is Union” / Sing Out! Hootenanny / Smithsonian- Folkways

Utah Phillips et al / “Power to the Union” / IWW Rebel Voices / Flying Fish

Seattle Labor Chorus / “Hail-A-Union” / Songs of Working People / Self-produced

Jody Kruskal & Luke Richardson / “Cluck Old Hen” / Waiting for the Boatsman / JKM

Woody Guthrie / “!913 Massacre” / Protest! / Viper

Craig Johnson / “Piney Mountains” / Away Down the Road / 5-String

Cincinnati's University Singers / “The Future America” / The Hand that Holds the Bread / New World

Uncle George Jones / “This What the Union Done” / Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners / Rounder

John McCutcheon / “The Young Ones Don't Remember” / Gonna Rise Again / Rounder

Maria Dunn / “Blue Lung” / Piece by Piece / Self-produced

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways