“ AMERICANS AT WORK LAUNDRY WORKERS ” 1959 AFL-CIO UNION LAUNDRY & DRY ...

Laugh at All the Fools--Bob A. Feldman

I Miss You--Bob A. Feldman

Nina at Work--Bob A. Feldman

Excerpt From Engels' 1892 Preface To His 1844 `Condition of Working Class' Book Revisited

"...The cause of the miserable condition of the working-class is to be sought...in the capitalistic system itself. The wage-worker sells to the capitalist his labor-force for a certain daily sum. After a few hours' work he has reproduced the value of that sum; but...he has to work another series of hours to complete his working-day; and the value he produces during these additional hours of surplus labor is surplus value; which costs the capitalist nothing, but yet goes into his pocket. That is the basis of the system which tends more and more to split up civilized society into a few Rothschilds and Vanderbilts, the owners of all the means of production and subsistence, on the one hand, and an immense number of wage-workers, the owners of nothing but their labor-force, on the other...

"...So long as the wealthy classes not only do not feel the want of any emancipation, but strenuously oppose the self-emancipation of the working-class, so long the social revolution will have to be prepared and fought out by the working-class alone...And today, the very people who..preach to the workers a Socialism...tending to reconcile...the interests of both the contending classes--these people are either neophytes, who have still to learn a great deal, or they are the worst enemies of the workers--wolves in sheep's clothing...

"...Today there is indeed...Socialism of all shades: Socialism conscious and unconscious and of the middle-class, for, verily, that abomination of abominations, Socialism, has not only become respectable, but has actually donned evening dress and lounges lazily on drawing-room love-seats...What I consider far more important than this momentary fashion among bourgeois circles of affecting a mild dilution of Socialism...is the revival of the East End of London...It has...become the home of...the organization of the great mass of `unskilled' workers..."

Engels' 1844 Description of Results of Industrialization In English-Speaking Capitalist Countries

As long ago as 1844, Fred Engels indicated what the results of industrialization were under the capitalist economic system in predominantly English-speaking countries, in the following way:

"...Murder has...been committed if society places hundreds of workers in such a position that they inevitably come to premature and unnatural ends. Their death is as violent as if they had been stabbed or shot. Murder has been committed if thousands of workers have been deprived of the necessities of life or if they have been forced into a situation in which it is impossible for them to survive. Murder has been committed if the workers have been forced by the strong arm of the law to go on living under such conditions until death inevitably releases them. Murder has been committed if society knows perfectly well that thousands of workers cannot avoid being sacrificed so long as these conditions are allowed to continue. Murder of this sort is just as culpable as the murder committed by an individual...If a worker dies no one places the responsibility for his death on society, though some would realize that society has failed to take steps to prevent the victim from dying. But it is murder all the same...

"...The workers are...condemned to a lifetime of unremitting toil...Man knows no more degrading or unbearable misery than forced labor. No worse fate can befall a man than to have to work every day from morning to night against his will at a job that he abhors...He works because he must...Because his hours of labor are so long and so dismally monotonous, the worker must surely detest his job after the first few weeks...In most branches of industry the task of the worker is limited to insignificant and purely repetitive tasks which continue minute by minute for every day of the year...There are only two courses open to the worker. He may submit to his fate and become a `good worker'...or he can resist and fight for his rights as far as humanly possible..."

`Camp Wellington' folk song lyrics

A folk song about the difference between early teenage summer camp life and the life of wage slavery and alienation under current U.S. economic system that most working-class people in USA experience once they leave school and enter the 9-to-5 work world. Melody and first verse of folk song were written in summer of 1963; and remaining verses and bridge of folk song were written in 2016:
(lyrics)
Oh, welcome to the camp,
Camp Wellington
Yes, welcome to the camp,
Camp Wellington
You'll find joy wherever you go
At the camp that's called our
Camp Wellington.

The counselors are all friendly at
Camp Wellington
The counselors are all friendly at
Camp Wellington
You'll find love wherever you go
In the camp that's called our
Camp Wellington.

Too bad your job ain't like Camp Wellington
But instead like a joyless cage
Too bad oligarchs have ruined it all
For campers when they start to age.

There's swimming in the lake at
Camp Wellington
There's swimming in the lake at
Camp Wellington
You'll find beauty wherever you go
In the camp that's called our
Camp Wellington

The food is free and healthy at
Camp Wellington
The food is free and healthy at
Camp Wellington
You'll find wellness wherever you go
At the camp that's called our
Camp Wellington.

Too bad your job ain't like Camp Wellington
But instead like a joyless cage
Too bad oligarchs have ruined it all
For campers when they start to age.

Yes, welcome to the camp
Camp Wellington
Oh, welcome to the camp
Camp Wellington
You'll find joy wherever you go
In the camp that's called our
Camp Wellington.