This activity can be done in conjunction with Yankees and Immigrants , Workers On The Line , Bale To Bolt , or other Tsongas Center school programs .
Music is important to humans, and has a particular importance to humans and their work.
In exploring the labor history of the United States, one finds music. Music was used in songs about and for work as well as a form of protest and as a way of joining people together. In the Labor Movement, songs were, and are, used to unite people and to influence thinking about work and the worker. These songs were often set to popular tunes. An example of this is Solidarity Forever written by Ralph Chapin and sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn Of The Republic .