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Tag Archives: Labor
1720: Women Working
Giacomo Ceruti: Women Working on Pillow Lace (c. 1720)
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Giacomo Ceruti, Italy, Labor, Painting, Textiles, Women
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1750 BC: Let Man Bear the Load of the Gods!
In one of the oldest surviving creation myths, humankind originates from a labor action. The story, told in the Babylonian Atrahasis Epic, goes like this: long before humankind, only gods exist, with some more powerful than others. These greater gods—the … Continue reading
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1973: And Here As In Other Places
Fold-out poster of Emiliano Zapata from El Malcriado, newsletter of the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO (May 4,1973) (source) …And here as in other places, enslaved men and women, whose consciousness has been asleep, are waking up, looking around struggling…
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Emiliano Zapata, Labor, Latino/as/x, Mexico, Posters, Revolution, Unions, USA
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1943: Workers and Paintings
Honoré Sharrer: Workers and Paintings (1943) I can’t identify all the paintings in this painting. Leave a comment if you can fill in the blanks: Hugo Gellert : Free Man’s Duties (No 4) … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, 1850's, 18th Century, 1930's, 1940's, 19th Century, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Dance, Diego Rivera, François Boucher, France, Grant Wood, Honoré Daumier, Honoré Sharrer, Hugo Gellert, Jean-François Millet, Labor, Madame de Pompadour, Mirrors, Netherlands, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Portraits, Printmaking, Spain, USA, Women
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1973: First Strike in Space
On December 28, 1973, the crew of Skylab 4 went on strike, shutting off radio communications with NASA ground control to protest their grueling working conditions. The three astronauts—Gerald Carr, William Pogue, and Edward Gibson—left Earth on November 16, 1973, … Continue reading
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1953: Work
Charles White: Work (1953)
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1915: Help the Furrier Strikers
Happy May Day!
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Judaism, Labor, Photography, Strikes, Unions, USA
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