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Tag Archives: Labor
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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1930: Work Must Not Cease
A performance of Karel Capek’s R.U.R. at the Haohel Theater, Tel Aviv in 1930. The play opens in Rossum’s Universal Robots (thus the title), a factory which manufactures artificial humanoids designed to be perfect obedient workers. At first, the robots … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 1930's, 20th Century, Automata, Czechoslovakia, Drama, Israel, Karel Capek, Labor, Language, Palestine, Photography, Rebellion
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1944: The Removal of Sewell Avery
In 1942, in an effort to avoid strikes in war-related industries, Franklin Roosevelt reinstated the War Labor Board and directed it to oversee and arbitrate negotiations between unions and employers. Most unions had also agreed not to strike during the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Hall, Harry S. Truman, Industry, Labor, Montgomery Ward, Photography, Sewell Avery, Strikes, Unions, USA, WWII
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1937: The Building of Tidewater
John Noble: The Building of Tidewater (c.1937)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Industry, John Noble, Labor, Painting, Rivers, USA
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