Books written by Archie Green

Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture

Afrikaners in Pretoria declaim Die Volk in its oldest emotive sense (singular, wholesome, mystical), while American journalists often reduce folk to the zany conduct of motley folk heroes—bank embezzlers, aging rock stars, sports titans ...
Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations

The Black Hills attracted a motley work force : returning Argonauts from California , coal miners lured west from anthracite and bituminous fields , European immigrants . At the turn of the century , Homestake included some twenty ...
Tin Men

"Crafted from sheet metal and scraps into likenesses that include clowns, knights, cowboys, and L. Frank Baum's Tin Woodman of Oz, tin men have both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes.
Songs about Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss

The Lomaxes printed " Shack Bully Holler " in their collection of American Ballads and Folk Songs ( Lomax and Lomax 1934 : 45-46 ) with a brief preface : ' Early in de mornin ' , Charley Diamon's levee camp , long about three ...
Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!

ere once was a union maid Who never was afraid Of the goons and the ginks and the company nks And the deputy sheriff who made the raid. She'd go to the union ... Chorus Oh you can't scare me, I'm stickin' to the union. I'm stickin' to ...
Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture

The folklorists who now choose to work at the Library of Congress and , by exten- sion , at sister agencies cannot escape the burden of reformulating state- ments of national purpose . We try to complement the netting of a blues lament ...
The Big Red Songbook

The Big Red Songbook
The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!

In The Big Red Songbook, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.