Working-class Heroes

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Working-Class Heroes is an organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colourful 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. Carefully curated by

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"This is one of the most captivating, intimate, no-holds-barred books of working-class history I have ever read. And it's a songbook, too!"
--David Rovics

"The world needs more thinkers like Mat Callahan."
--Jared Soper, SLUG magazine

Author Bio

Mat Callahan is a musician and author of five books including The Explosion of Deferred Dreams and A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property. Yvonne Moore is a singer and bandleader. Her exploration of the songs of Sarah Ogan Gunning led to the making of Working-Class Heroes.