American working-class literature : an anthology / edited by Nicholas Coles, Janet Zandy.

I Early American Labor: Hard, Bound, and Free 1600s-1810s 1
"The Trappan'd Maiden: or, the Distressed Damsel" (mid-1600s) 6
/ James Revel "The Poor, Unhappy Transported Felon" (1680s) 7
/ Gottlieb Mittelberger "Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754" (1754) 13
"Petition of a Grate Number of Blackes" to Thomas Gage, May 25, 1774 16
/ Olaudah Equiano ["I Was in Another World: The Slave Ship"] from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789) 16
/ Phillis Wheatley "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, Etc." (1773) 23
"A Sea Song" 25
/ Francis Hopkinson "The Raising: A New Song for Federal Mechanics" by A. B. (1788) 26
/ John McIlvaine "Address to the Journeymen Cordwainers L. B. of Philadelphia" (1794) 27
Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages (Winter 1811-12) 28
II New Kinds of Work, Old Practices 1820s-1850s 31
Sorrow Songs and Spirituals 33
"Nobody knows de trouble I've seen" 34
"Steal away to Jesus" 35
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" 35
"Many Thousand Gone" 35
"Bredden, don't git weary" 36
/ W. E. B. DuBois "The Sorrow Songs" (1903) 36
/ Maria W Stewart "Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832" 44
The Lowell Mill Girls 48
/ Josephine L. Baker "A Second Peep at Factory Life" (1845) 49
/ Mary Paul "Letters to Her Father" (1845-1848) 52
"The Lowell Factory Girl" 58
/ Harriet Hanson Robinson "Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls" (1898) 59
/ Helena Minton "From The Same Cloth: For the Mill Girls, Lowell, Massachusetts, circa 1840" (1985) 62
/ Frederick Douglass ["In the Shipyards"] (1845 and 1855) 62
"An Address to the Colored People of the United States" from The North Star (1848) 68
/ Herman Melville "The Paradise of Bachelors" and "The Tartarus of Maids" (1855) 72
/ John Greenleaf Whittier "The Ship-Builders" (1850) 85
/ Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) "Soliloquy of a Housemaid" (1854) 87
"The Working-Girls of New York" (1868) 88
/ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "The Slave Mother" (1857) 90
/ Harriet E. Wilson "Keep her...She's real handsome and bright, and not very black, either." 91
/ Walt Whitman "A Song for Occupations" (1855) 96
"The Wound-Dresser" (1865) 101
Nineteenth-Century Work Songs 103
"Peg An' Awl" 104
"Paddy Works on the Railway" 105
"The Housekeeper's Lament" 106
"The Farmer Is the Man" 107
"John Henry" 108
III Beneath the Gilded Surface: Wording-Class Fictions and Realities, 1860-1890s 111
/ Rebecca Harding Davis "Life in the Iron Mills" (1861) 113
/ I. G. Blanchard "Eight Hours" (1866, poem; set to music, 1878) 137
/ Lucy Parsons "To Tramps" (1884) 140
Songs of the Knights of Labor 142
"Knights of Labor" (1898) 143
"Storm the Fort, Ye Knights" (1885) 144
"Thirty Cents a Day" (1892) 145
"America" (1890) 145
"Father Gander's Melodies" (1887) 146
"One More Battle to Fight" (1892) 147
The Battle of Homestead, 1892 148
AAISW Preamble (from the Constitution of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers) 150
"Tyrant Frick" 150
"A Man Named Carnegie" 151
"Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men" 152
"A Fight for Home and Honor" 153
/ Stephen Crane "The Men in the Storm" (1894) 154
/ Hamlin Garland "Under the Lion's Paw" (1889) 158
/ Edwin Markham "The Man with the Hoe" (1899) 167
"Lifelets: Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans" from the Independent 169
"A Georgia Negro Peon" (1904) 169
"The Autobiography A Labor Leader": James Williams (1902) 174
"A Negro Nurse" (1912) 178
/ Maxine Hong Kingston "The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains" from China Men (1980) 182
Angel Island Poems by Chinese Immigrants (1910-1940) 197
IV Revolt, Represssion, and Cultural Formations: 1900-1929 201
/ Eugene V. Debs "How I Became a Socialist" (1902) 204
"Statement to the Court" (1918) 207
Miners' and Other Labor Poems 209
/ J. A. Edgerton "The Man Behind the Pick" (1903) 211
"Scab, Scab, Scab" (1904) 211
/ Shorty P. "The Eight Hour Day" (1904) 212
/ Joe R. Lazure "A Colorado Miner's Fourth" (1905) 212
/ J. P. Thompson "Union Poem" (1909) 215
/ Unknown Worker "Labor Speaks" (1909) 215
/ Joe Foley "Wadda Ya Want to Break Your Back for the Boss For" (c. 1917) 216
/ Berton Braley "The Worker," (1917) 216
/ Eugene Barnett "Political Prisoners" (1921) 217
"St. Peter and the Scab" (1923) 217
/ Upton Sinclair ["The Hog-Squeal of the Universe"] from The Jungle (1906) 219
/ Jack London "The Apostate" (1906) 226
"Pinched": A Prison Experience (1907) 238
/ Rose Schneiderman "A Cap Maker's Story" (1905) 245
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, March 25, 1911 249
/ Rose Schneiderman, "Triangle Memorial Speech" (1911) 251
/ Morris Rosenfeld "Requiem on the Triangle Fire" (1911) 251
Contemporary Poems on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 253
/ Mary Fell "The Triangle Fire" 253
/ Chris Llewellyn "Four from Sonya," "I Am Appalled," "Survivor's Cento," "Sear" 257
/ Carol Tarlen "Sisters in the Flames" 260
/ Safiya Henderson-Holmes "Rituals of spring (for the 78th anniversary of the shirtwaist factory fire)" 261
/ James Oppenheim "Bread and Roses" (1914) 265
/ Arturo Giovannitti "The Walker" (1914) 266
/ John Reed "War in Paterson" (1913) 271
Fellow Workers: IWW Oral Histories 277
(from Solidarity Forever, An Oral History of the IWW 1985) 277
/ Sophie Cohen "Paterson had a prison-like feeling" 277
/ James Fair "Working the Docks" 282
/ Mother Jones "The March of the Mill Children" (1903) 284
The Wobblies, the "Little Red Song Book," and the Legacy of Joe Hill (1879-1915) 289
/ Elizabeth Gurley Flynn "Joe Hill-Martyred Troubador of Labor" from The Rebel Girl: My First Life (1906-1926) 290
/ Joe Hill "The Rebel Girl" (song) and letter to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 294
From The Little Red Song Book (1913) 294
"Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World" 294
/ Joe Hill "The Tramp" 295
/ Ralph Chaplin "Solidarity Forever!" 296
/ Joe Hill "The Preacher and the Slave" 296
/ T-Bone Slim "The Popular Wobbly" 297
/ Joe Hill "Joe Hill's Last Will" 298
/ Ralph Chaplin "Mourn Not the Dead" 298
/ Alfred Hayes "Joe Hill" (1928) 299
/ Cheri Register "A Dream of Joe Hill" (2000) 299
/ Sarah N. Cleghorn "Through the Needle's Eye: 1. Comrade Jesus 308
2. Quatrain" (1915) 309
/ Carl Sandburg "Chicago" (1916) 310
"Muckers" (1916) 311
"Child of the Romans" (1916) 311
from "The People, Yes" (1936) 312
/ Lola Ridge "The Ghetto" (1918) 314
/ Anzia Yezierska "The Free Vacation House" (1920) 328
/ Edith Summers Kelley "Billy's Birth," restored chapter of Weeds (1923) 333
Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance 342
/ James Weldon Johnson "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1908) 344
/ Jean Toomer "Reapers" (1923) 345
/ Claude McKay "The Harlem Dancer" (1917) 345
"If We Must Die" (1919) 345
"The Lynching" (1920) 346
/ Countee Cullen "For a Lady I Know" (1925) 346
"From the Dark Tower" (1927) 346
/ Sterling A. Brown "Ma Rainey" (1930) 347
"Scotty Has His Say" (1932) 348
"Call Boy" (1932) 349
/ Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" (1920) 350
/ Angelina Weld Grimke "Fragment" (c. 1930) 351
/ John Beecher "Report to the Stockholders" (1925) 351
"Beaufort Tides" (1934) 354
/ Bartolomeo Vanzetti "Last Speech to the Court" (1927) 354
/ Agnes Smedley ["The Wanderlust in My Blood"] from Daughter of Earth (1929) 357
"Mining Families" 1937 364
V Economic Depression and Cultural Resurgence: 1930s 367
/ Langston Hughes "The Weary Blues" (1925) 369
"Johannesburg Mines" (1928) 371
"Christ in Alabama" (1931) 371
"Park Bench" (1934) 371
"Let America Be America Again" (1936) 372
"Office Building Evening" (pub.

1960) 374
/ Genevieve Taggard "Words Property of the People" (1934) 374
"Life of the Mind, 1935" (1935) 375
"At Last the Women Are Moving" (1935) 376
/ Mary Heaton Vorse "The Emergency Brigade at Flint" (1937) 377
/ Mike Gold "Go Left, Young Writers!" (1929) 380
"Jews and Christians" from Jews Without Money (1935) 383
Appalachia Voices 389
/ Aunt Molly Jackson "Kentucky Miners' Wives Ragged Hungry Blues" (1932) 391
/ Sarah Ogan Gunning "I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow" 392
/ Kathy Kahn "They Say Them Child Brides Don't Last: Florence Reece" from Hillbilly Women (1972) 393
/ Florence Reece "Which Side Are You On?" (1931) 396
/ Jim Garland "The Murder of Harry Simms" 399
/ Tillman Cadle "Commentary on Harry Simms" (1932) 400
/ John Dos Passos "Harlan: Working Under the Gun" (1931) 400
/ Maggie Anderson "Among Elms and Maples, Morgantown, West Virginia, August, 1935" (1986) 408
"Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, July, 1935" (1986) 408
"Long Story" (1992) 409
/ Don West "Clods of Southern Earth: Introduction" (1946) 411
"Mountain Boy" (1931-1932?) 415
"Clodhopper" (1940) 416
"There's Anger in the Land" (1950) 417
"No Lonesome Road" (1940) 418
"I Am a Woman Worker": A Scrapbook of Autobiographies from the Summer Schools for Women Workers (1936) 419
"Soldering" 419
"One Day of Labor" 420