Collector Records was founded in 1970 by the late Joe Glazer, an American folk singer. Glazer is known as "labor's troubador" and he started the label to distribute albums of his own interpretations and compositions of American labor songs. Working with an organization called the Great Labor's Arts Exchange, Glazer also released recordings of other performers in the modern U.S. labor movement. The label was donated to the Smithsonian in 2005.

A few recordings from Collector Records. Click here for more.

Joe Glazer Sings Labor Songs

Joe Glazer

COLL01918 (1982)

Bread and Raises: Songs for Working Women

Bobbie McGee

COLL01933 (1981)

Workin' for a Livin'

Larry Penn

COLL01931 (1980)

Gallant Lads are We: Songs of the British Industrial Revolution

Louis Killen

COLL01932 (1980)

Steady as She Goes: Songs and Chanties from the Days of Commercial Sail

Louis Killen, Jeff Warner, Gerret Warner & Fud Benson

COLL01928 (1977)