Nailmakers' Strike

By: Michael Raven
For: Choir
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Composer
Michael Raven
Year of composition
1973
Arranger
Year of arrangement
2020
Lyricist
Michael Raven
Difficulty
Moderate (Grades 4-6)
Duration
2 minutes
Genre
Classical music
License details
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This is an arrangement of a folk song by Michael Raven, from his album "The Jolly Machine - songs of industrial protest and social discontent from the West Midlands" (1974). In 1862 (but at least one source says 1852) there was for twenty weeks a strike by West Midland nailmakers in a futile protest against the increasing use of machinery and consequent low wages and loss of jobs. One day a group of them, as an event for publicity and fund raising, hauled a heavy tub of coal from Netherton (in the Black Country) to Bromsgrove. Michael Raven based his song, which was used in 1973 in a documentary "The Nailmakers" performed at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, on a broadsheet that the men may well have sold to passers-by.

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