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Shirt
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The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians Gossiping over tea and noodles on their break Or talking…

Contributor:

Robert Pinsky

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Date:

1990

Subjects:

Labor, Textiles, Economic life, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry
Worker’s Song
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 Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.O I have my life and my labor!Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!Awaken, my brothers, there’s no time…

Contributor:

Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)

Places:

Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine (Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)

Date:

1895

Subjects:

Labor, Class, Jewish identity, Economic life, Music, Performing arts, Poetry

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music, Popular Poetry