📚 Work Songs

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Rhythm set to pull: sea shanties, field hollers and the industrial logging, recorded before they vanished.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject work songs in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Shanties from the seven seas	Stan Hugill	1961	14
Wake up dead man	Bruce Jackson	1972	8
The Big red songbook	Archie Green	2007	6
Rhythms of Labour	Marek Korczynski	2013	5
An education in Georgia	Calvin Trillin	1964	4
Socialist and Labor Songs	Elizabeth Morgan	2014	4
Songs of sea labour, chanties	Frank Thomas Bullen	1914	3
Hebridean folksongs	Donald MacCormick	1969	3
Songs about work	Richard A. Reuss	1993	3
Work songs	Ted Gioia	2006	3
De operariorum cantilenis Graecis	Johann Hinrichs	1908	2
Negro workaday songs	Howard Washington Odum	1926	2
Trudovye artelʹnye pesni i pripevki	A. A. Banin	1971	2
Cantigas de trabalho	Oswaldo Osório	1980	2
Hoobaanta afka hooyo =	S. A. Warsama	1987	2
Apple for the Teacher	Jane Yolen	2005	2
Sukuma labor songs from Western Tanzania	Frank D. Gunderson	2010	2
Die Arshe	Kerstin Grothmann	2011	2
Songs of toil	Carmen Sylva	1888	1
Arbeit und Rhythmus	Karl Bücher	1899	1
Arbeiterdichtung	Julius Bab	1900	1
Ukraïnsʹki robitnychi pisni	Dmytro Rarahovsʹkyĭ	1908	1
Training the little home maker	Mabel Louise Keech	1912	1
Robitnychi pisnï	Ivan Stefanït͡skyĭ	1917	1
Mellows	R. Emmet Kennedy	1925	1
Songs	Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry	1930	1
Das deutsche Arbeitslied	Joseph Schopp	1935	1
Rōdō to ongaku	Rōdō Kagaku Kenkyūjo	1943	1
Work & sing	Elie Siegmeister	1944	1
To dēmotiko ergatiko tragoudi	Panos Spalas	1947	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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