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Tag Archives: Labor
1982: Press Operators
Russ Marshall: Press Operators, GM Fisher Body Trim Plant, Fort Street, Detroit, Michigan (1982, printed 1997)
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Cars, Detroit, Factories, Labor, Photography, Russ Marshall, USA, Women
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1928: Damaged
Walker Evans: [Workers Loading Neon “Damaged” Sign into Truck, West Eleventh Street, New York City] (1928-1930)
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Tagged 1920's, Labor, New York City, Photography, USA, Walker Evans
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1961: A Song Bob Dylan Never Wrote
From Dylan’s Chronicles Volume One (2004): I can’t say when it occurred to me to write my own songs. I couldn’t have come up with anything comparable or halfway close to the folk song lyrics I was singing to define … Continue reading
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Tagged "Big Bill" Haywood, 1960's, 20th Century, Alfred Hayes, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Earl Robinson, IWW, Joe Hill, Labor, Leadbelly, Music, Paul RObeson, Photography, Saints, St. Augustine, Ted Russell, Unions, USA, Woody Guthrie
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1159 BC: The First Strike in History
In his first two decades on the throne, Ramesses III had repelled invasions, restored Egypt’s temples and re-established national pride. The court now looked forward to the king’s thirty-year jubilee, determined to stage a celebration worthy of so glorious a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12th Century BC, Africa, Egypt, Labor, Ramesses III, Strikes
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1918: Munitions Girls
Stanhope Forbes: The Munitions Girls (1918)
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Factories, Great Britain, Labor, Painting, Stanhope Forbes, Women, WWI
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1900: Triptych
Constantin Meunier: Mine Triptych (Descent, Calvary, Ascent) (c. 1900)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Belgium, Constantin Meunier, Labor, Mines, Painting
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1885: Foundry
P. S. Krøyer: The Iron Foundry, Burmeister and Wain (1885)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Denmark, Factories, Industry, Labor, P. S. Krøyer, Painting
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2018: memo for labor
memo for labor you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from the schools from the prisons from the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Books, Environment, Labor, Poetry, Prisons, Ryan Eckes, USA
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1915: Children of Eve
Capitalist Henry Clay Madison is unmoved by the specter of a child laborer in John H. Collins’s Children of Eve (1915).
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Capitalism, Children, Film, Ghosts, John H. Collins, Labor, USA
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1921: Beware the Ides of March
The National Association for the Promotion of Labor Unionism Among Negroes was founded in 1918 by A. Philip Randolph—the great union organizer who would later form the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters—and writer Chandler Owens; it was promoted through their … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, A. Philip Randolph, African-Americans, Chandler Owens, Civil Rights, Labor, Socialism & Communism, Unions, USA
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