Tag Archives: Labor

1943: Day Shift

Posted on August 15, 2017 by

Francis Criss: Day Shift (1943)

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1937: The Daily Worker

Posted on August 14, 2017 by

Clive Branson: Selling the “Daily Worker” outside Projectile Engineering Works (1937)

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1951: Knock Him Out!

Posted on August 11, 2017 by

“Knock Him Out! Labor Can Do It.” Poster by Bernard Seaman. CIO Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination, 1951. (source)

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1958: Don’t Cross Our Mom’s Picket Line

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International Ladies Garment Workers Union picket line at Michele Frocks, Scranton PA, 1958 (source)

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1940: Top Women

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

The official title of this item in the National Archives is “Like girls from Mars are these ‘top women’ at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works. Their job is to clean up at regular intervals around the tops of twelve blast … Continue reading →

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1962: Nurses’ March

Posted on August 4, 2017 by

April 1, 1962: 8,000 union nurses march for higher pay in Trafalgar Square, London. In 1958, at the worst stage of the recession, the Conservative government took a firm stand against pay increases and, having won the busmen’s strike in … Continue reading →

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1933: World Revolution

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April 3, 1933: Workers gluing maps to globes at the Geographia factory in London.

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