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| Management number | 205746163 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $46.35 | Model Number | 205746163 | ||
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Title: Off To Work (Various Artists)
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Koko-Mojo
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4260072729445
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2021-10-01
Number of Discs: 1
Slave owners had an economic incentive to exploit the multifaceted talents of blacks in the craft shop as well as in the kitchen and field. But after emancipation, whites attempted to limit blacks to menial jobs. Throughout the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, blacks as a group were barred from machine work within the industrial sector, and from white-collar clerical and service work. "Modernization" wore a white face. Focusing on the city of Memphis, Tennessee, we offer a story about African American men and women workers who literally risked their lives on the shop floor, day in and day out, trying to provide for their families. In the 1940s and 1950s, Memphis was a place where blacks were concentrated in the lowest-paying, dirtiest, and most hazardous jobs, and where the political establishment (the noxious, violent Boss Crump machine) routinely colluded with employers to harass and assault union organizers. Within this state-sanctioned system of segregation, industrial unionism represented the most progressive force for change, their toughest battles in the period immediately following World War II. Many had moved to Memphis from the surrounding countryside, where their parents had labored as sharecroppers, receiving their pay more often in promises than in cash. Factory work represented a step up and out of the plantations, sawmills, and lumber camps, and the steady wages offered by the biggest plants, especially Firestone, were higher than the pay earned by African American post office employees, nurses, or schoolteachers.
Tracks:
1.1 Louis Jordon - Workin' Man
1.2 Buster Brown - John Henry
1.3 John Lee Hooker - I Lost My Job
1.4 Long Tall Lester - Working Man
1.5 Val Martinez - Payday
1.6 Wilbert Harrison - Off To Work Again
1.7 Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
1.8 St Louis Jimmy - Hard Luck Boogie
1.9 Chico Leverett - Work Work
1.10 B.B. King - Hard Working Woman
1.11 Esquerita - Laid Off
1.12 Louisiana Red - Working Man Blues
1.13 Little Willie Littlefield - Happy Pay Day
1.14 Tommy Youngblood - Laid Off My Job Too Long
1.15 B. Brown And His Rockin’ McVouts - Hard Working Man
1.16 Big Bill Broonzy - Moppers Blues
1.17 Sonny Terry ; Brownie McGhee - Auto Mechanic Blues
1.18 B. K. Anderson - The Minimum Wage
1.19 Chuck Berry - Let It Rock
1.20 Oscar Brown Jr - Work Song
1.21 The Heartbeats - I Found A Job
1.22 Smiley Lewis - Blue Monday
1.23 Preacher Stephens - Unemployment Blues
1.24 Lightnin’ Hopkins - Don’t Need No Job
1.25 Jay McShann - Hard Working Man’s Blues
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Koko-Mojo
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4260072729445
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2021-10-01
Number of Discs: 1
Slave owners had an economic incentive to exploit the multifaceted talents of blacks in the craft shop as well as in the kitchen and field. But after emancipation, whites attempted to limit blacks to menial jobs. Throughout the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, blacks as a group were barred from machine work within the industrial sector, and from white-collar clerical and service work. "Modernization" wore a white face. Focusing on the city of Memphis, Tennessee, we offer a story about African American men and women workers who literally risked their lives on the shop floor, day in and day out, trying to provide for their families. In the 1940s and 1950s, Memphis was a place where blacks were concentrated in the lowest-paying, dirtiest, and most hazardous jobs, and where the political establishment (the noxious, violent Boss Crump machine) routinely colluded with employers to harass and assault union organizers. Within this state-sanctioned system of segregation, industrial unionism represented the most progressive force for change, their toughest battles in the period immediately following World War II. Many had moved to Memphis from the surrounding countryside, where their parents had labored as sharecroppers, receiving their pay more often in promises than in cash. Factory work represented a step up and out of the plantations, sawmills, and lumber camps, and the steady wages offered by the biggest plants, especially Firestone, were higher than the pay earned by African American post office employees, nurses, or schoolteachers.
Tracks:
1.1 Louis Jordon - Workin' Man
1.2 Buster Brown - John Henry
1.3 John Lee Hooker - I Lost My Job
1.4 Long Tall Lester - Working Man
1.5 Val Martinez - Payday
1.6 Wilbert Harrison - Off To Work Again
1.7 Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
1.8 St Louis Jimmy - Hard Luck Boogie
1.9 Chico Leverett - Work Work
1.10 B.B. King - Hard Working Woman
1.11 Esquerita - Laid Off
1.12 Louisiana Red - Working Man Blues
1.13 Little Willie Littlefield - Happy Pay Day
1.14 Tommy Youngblood - Laid Off My Job Too Long
1.15 B. Brown And His Rockin’ McVouts - Hard Working Man
1.16 Big Bill Broonzy - Moppers Blues
1.17 Sonny Terry ; Brownie McGhee - Auto Mechanic Blues
1.18 B. K. Anderson - The Minimum Wage
1.19 Chuck Berry - Let It Rock
1.20 Oscar Brown Jr - Work Song
1.21 The Heartbeats - I Found A Job
1.22 Smiley Lewis - Blue Monday
1.23 Preacher Stephens - Unemployment Blues
1.24 Lightnin’ Hopkins - Don’t Need No Job
1.25 Jay McShann - Hard Working Man’s Blues
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