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- noun
Folk elements of the lives ofworkers .
Etymologies
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For decades, he studied what he called laborlore: the work songs, slang, craft techniques and tales that helped to define the trade unions.
Democracy Now! 2009
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For decades, he studied what he called laborlore: the work songs, slang, craft techniques and tales that helped to define the trade unions.
Democracy Now! 2009
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For decades, he studied what he called laborlore: the work songs, slang, craft techniques and tales that helped to define the trade unions.
Democracy Now! 2009
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For decades, he studied what he called laborlore: the work songs, slang, craft techniques and tales that helped to define the trade unions.
Democracy Now! 2009
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Archie, as he was universally known, was a scholar of what he called "laborlore" - the expressive culture of working people.
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'60s and' 70s digging up and dusting off forgotten bits of what he called "laborlore" - legends, folksongs, and stories of individual workers.
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He coined the term "laborlore" and actively encouraged filmmakers, steel workers and pile drivers, among many others, to keep the stories of working people alive.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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