Barry, is The Idle Wielder (=welder in Scots dialect?) to the tune of "Four Loom Weaver"?

There's an entire subset of Out-of-Work songs; they're one of the kinds of songs that unfortunately never seem to lose relevancy. Some examples:
Industrial Revolution, when the rise in factories was putting the handcraft tradesmen out of work:
Four Loom Weaver
Cropper Lads
The Triumph of General Ludd (yes, it's about Luddites!)

Miner's songs about pit closings:
Farewell to the Rhonddha

Mill closings:
Spinnin' Mills of Home, Aragon Mill-Si Kahn
Way Down the Road-Craig Johnson

The death of the fishing industry:
Whaur Will We Gang-A. Mitchell,Scotland
Another Bay-author?, sung by Gordon Bok,Long Island
Free in the Harbour, The Idiot, Tiny Fishes-Stan Rogers, Maritimes
No More Fish-Shelly Posen, Maritimes

No work in general because of lousy economy:
Heading for Halifax-A. MacDonald(?), Maritimes
Hard Times of Old England-trad., England
Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?-Yip Harburg(?), USA

Some good recordings of workers' songs have been put out by Joe Glazer (co-author of "Songs of Work and Freedom" with Edith Fowke and a Legend in His Own Mind); we have Louis Killen's "Gallant Lads Are We" and Magpie's "Workin' My Life Away". Another great collection recently re-issued on CD by Topic is "The Iron Muse" featuring English industrial songs by A. L. Lloyd and others.

My favorite type of work songs are the ones that actually describe the type of work done, like "Celebrated Working Man" and "Colliers' Rant" do for mining, "Click Go the Shears" and "The Shear at Castlereagh" for sheep shearing, the 60 zillion versions of "The Sailor's Alphabet" or "The Logger's Alphabet" do for their professions, etc.