Joe Glazer
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Joe Glazer (1918-2006), closely associated with labor unions and often referred to as the "labor's troubador," was a folk musician who recorded more than thirty albums over the course of his career.
Born in New York City, Glazer was a graduate of Brooklyn College who would eventually move to Akron, Ohio where he would perform for the United Rubber Workers throughout his career, a union for which he served as education director from 1950 to 1962. He was also a member of the Textile Workers Union of America as well as an adviser to the United States Information Agency during the administration of John F. Kennedy. He would later work for the State Department.
Some of his more acclaimed songs include The Mill Was Made of Marble, Too Old To Work and Automaton. In 1960 he-in collaboration with Edith Fowke-would publish Songs of Work and Freedom, which included ten of his original compositions.
In 2002 he released an autobiography entitled Labor's Troubador, which was published by Illinois University Press.
On September 19, 2006, it was disclosed that Glazer had died at the age of 88, reportedly due to the progression of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland.
