As noted, this week's playlist is designed to give insight into the reactions of workers caught up in industrialisation. It is all too easy to become fixated on luxury goods, transatlantic shipping routes, and tonnages. The lives of the men, women, and children who ran the factory machines and worked in the mills can be harder to picture. These pieces, with their origins spanning from eighteenth-century Britain to twentieth-century Canada, speak of the hard lives and raw feelings of generations of Atlantic world workers and offer a glimpse into the world of popular/plebeian/vulgar entertainment.

Ten and Nine

Selected recording: Liam Clancy

Hard Times in the Mill

Selected recording: Pete Seeger

The Work of the Weavers

Selected recording: The Highwaymen

The Ballad of Springhill

Selected recording: Barbara Dickson

Peg and Awl

Selected recording: Freedy Johnston

Solidarity Forever

Selected recording: Pete Seeger

Cotton Mill Girls

Selected recording: The Journeymen

No Nos Moveran (We Shall Not Be Moved)

Selected recording: Joan Baez

The Death of Mother Jones

Selected recording: Joe Glazer