I was recently hanging out with a friend and a song popped up on my playlist. My friend clearly hadn't heard it before, looked at me and said 'Shit, this guy gets it'.
The song was Sixteen Tons by Ernie Ford with the classic lines:
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.
Another cracking one is John Lennon's 'Working Class Hero'. I was wondering what suggestions do people have for songs that really make this point? I'd love to flesh out my playlist and the labour movement has a great history of songs.