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Strike While the Needle is Hot

Name: Strike While the Needle is Hot
Brand: Common Notions
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A Discography of Workers' Revolt

By: Josh MacPhee, Kennedy Block

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Paperback | 2 September 2025

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240 Pages

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20.3 x 20.3 x 1.9

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Songwriters in a Fiat factory. Miners in the local music studio. Workers on the radio and musicians on the picketline. Music can carry a strike from one factory to the next or bring it into living rooms across the globe. Record by record, this book unearths some of the biggest swings musicians, workers, and supporters have taken to co-create a popular culture of resistance. Workers have been producing cultures of resistance for as long as theyâve been fighting for better working conditions, higher wages, and sometimes even revolution. One form this culture has often taken is song, and throughout the latter half of the twentieth century autonomous workers, musicians, and unions around the world honed it into a nearly forgotten form: the strike record. Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers' Revolt takes readers through the militant sounds and rebellious rhythms of laborâs greatest hits preserved on vinyl, providing both a broad overview of how militant unionists used music as a tool of struggle, as well as an inspiring history from below about specific worker revolts that would be lost to the bossesâ tune of profit and production had they not been captured on small discs of vinyl.

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