Strike While the Needle is HotA Discography of Workers' Revolt\nAuthor(s): Josh MacPhee, Kennedy Block\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Common Notions, United Kingdom\nImprint: Common Notions\nISBN-13: 9781945335549, 978-1945335549\nSynopsis\nSongwriters in a Fiat factory. Miners in the local music studio. Workers on the radio and musicians on the picketline. Music can carry a strike from one factory to the next or bring it into living rooms across the globe. Record by record, this book unearths some of the biggest swings musicians, workers, and supporters have taken to co-create a popular culture of resistance. Workers have been producing cultures of resistance for as long as theyve been fighting for better working conditions, higher wages, and sometimes even revolution. One form this culture has often taken is song, and throughout the latter half of the twentieth century autonomous workers, musicians, and unions around the world honed it into a nearly forgotten form: the strike recor.