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Labor Jawn

Labor Jawn

By: Gabe Christy and Young Sam James
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Philly's working class history. Historian Gabe Christy and musician Young Sam James explore the working class history of Philadelphia and the surrounding world.


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  • Labor Jawn: In Story & Song
    Dec 24 2025

    On November 18, 2022, Labor Jawn hosted their first live show In Story and Song at the Philadelphia Folksong Society.

    Join the hosts of the Labor Jawn podcast in celebrating the labor movement through song and story. Relive the struggles and victories of the working class with historian Gabe Christy as musician Young Sam James leads you and a few special guests in the anthems and ballads that defined an entire movement.

    Guests are Pie-Eyed Preachers, Bevan Dayn, and Molly Hebert-Wilson.

    Intro: 00:00
    Hard Travelin': 4:40
    Paddy On The Railway: 9:54
    Good Morning Blues (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 14:51
    Preacher And The Slave: 20:11
    Factory Girl: 27:16
    Nine To Five: 34:18
    Too Old To Work: 38:39
    No More: 45:53
    Trust No One (Bevan Dayn): 50:20
    There Is Power In A Union (Bevan Dayn): 53:31
    Building Up And Tearing It All Down (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 58:36
    (Sam breaks a string): 1:02:20
    Hot Asphalt (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 1:04:26
    Dirty Old Town (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 1:09:45
    Come Out Ye Black And Tans (Pie-Eyed Preachers): 1:15:20
    Radium (Molly Hebert-Wilson): 1:19:36
    Paradise: 1:27:52
    They're Moving Father's Grave: 1:34:00
    Barnyards Of Delgaty: 1:36:57
    Tip Your Waitress: 1:41:34
    Solidarity Forever (feat. Molly Hebert-Wilson): 1:44:41
    We Shall Not Be Moved: 1:49:10

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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • Greater Philadelphia Volumes - Interview with Dr. Francis Ryan
    Dec 8 2025

    Sam and Gabe sit down to chat with Dr. Francis Ryan, Associate Teaching Professor & Director of Master of Labor and Employment Relations Program, Labor Studies and Employment Relations (LSER) at Rutgers University, to discuss Philadelphia's importance in labor history, and his contributions to the three volume set The Greater Philadelphia Region, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation, and Greater Philadelphia and the World from University of Pennsylvania Press.

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    49 mins
  • Feeding the Army of Labor - Interview with the Starbucks Strike Kitchen
    Nov 20 2025

    Sam and Gabe sit down to chat with Megan and Claudia of Starbucks Workers United and Sophie of the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America who established a strike kitchen to feed and support Starbucks workers as they fight for a first contract.

    Sign the pledge: https://www.nocontractnocoffee.com/

    More links: https://linktr.ee/phillyDSAlabor

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    43 mins
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