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LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK - "The Worker of Steel"

Lawrence Smoot | Published on 1/19/2025

"The Worker of Steel" 
From the 1991 movie, "The Night Before the Strike,” based on the Great Workers' Struggle in South Korea following the democracy movement in June, 1987. That movement’s goals included safe working conditions, living wages, establishment of a democratic union -- Minju Nojo – and  democratization of company unions. “The Worker of Steel” has since been adopted as one of the most popular protest/labor union songs in South Korea. Check out a discussion about the South Korean hit TV show Squid Game – which just released Season 2 – on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour


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