Two songs come to my mind: BREAD & ROSES is one. The second one is a Si Kahn song called WHEN THE LAND AND THEY WERE YOUNG. It has a verse that goes "Young women fleeing Cossack raids, brought strong work-hardened hands, to run the mills and factories of a new and growing land. They gave their hands to strange machines, their lips to foreign tongues. They gave their youth to sweatshops when the land and they were young."