Fellow Workers
Fellow Workers is an album by American folksinger Utah Phillips and American singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. It was released May 18, 1999, on Difranco's own Righteous Babe Records. Fellow Workers is DiFranco's and Phillip's second collaboration, following The [Past Didn't Go Anywhere]. "Fellow workers!" is the phrase with which members of the Industrial Workers of the World traditionally begin their public addresses.
Track listing
- "Joe Hill" – 2:36
- "Stupid's Song" – 2:43
- "The Most Dangerous Woman" – 3:43
- "Stupid's Pledge" – 0:14
- "Direct Action" – 4:52
- "Pie in the Sky" – 3:29
- "Shoot or Stab Them" – 2:43
- "Lawrence" – 3:29
- "Bread and Roses" – 1:45
- "Why Come?" – 6:05
- "Unless You Are Free" – 0:22
- "I Will Not Obey" – 2:00
- "The Long Memory" – 5:33
- "The Silence That Is Me" – 0:41
- "Joe Hill" – 1:37
- "The Saw-Playing Musician" – 4:43
- "Dump the Bosses" – 1:14
- "The Internationale" – 2:48
Historical references
- "Joe Hill" refers to Joe Hill
- "The Most Dangerous Woman" refers to Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and the West [Virginia coal wars]
- "Direct Action" refers to the Spokane free speech fight
- "Shoot or Stab Them" refers to Lucy Parsons and the Haymarket affair
- "Lawrence" and "Bread and Roses" refer to the 1912 Lawrence textile strike
- "Lawrence" also refers to "Smiling Joe" Ettor
- "Why Come" refers to the Everett massacre