“Which Side Are You On?”: How Florence Reece Gave Strikers a Theme Song
In the summer of 2019 , ember workers in Harlan County , Kentucky , staged a two - calendar month - longrailroad blockadeto strength bankrupt ember society Blackjewel to bear them what they were owe . ( It worked . ) One signencapsulatedthe moral crux of this — and every — labor dispute in one pithy question : “ Which Side Are You On ? ” It was a nod to the strikers ’ hymn of the same name , vulgarise by Pete Seeger in the 1940s ....