Tag Archives: Labor

1925: Buy Bread with the Union Label

Posted on September 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Flag of the London Jewish Bakers Union (1925) (source)

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1890: Three for Five

Posted on September 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

John George Brown: Three for Five (1890)

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1925: The Sleeping Factory

Posted on August 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

Daniel Vázquez Díaz: La fábrica bajo la niebla [The Factory in the Mist] (c. 1920) La fábrica dormida [The Sleeping Factory] (1925) In February 1919, after eight workers were fired for political reasons from a hydroelectric plant in Barcelona, … Continue reading →

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1884: Joseph Arch’s Hands

Posted on August 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Born the son of a farmworker, Joseph Arch started work at the age of nine—first as a crow-scarer, then as a plough-boy. Eventually, he mastered a range of skills that allowed him to move around the Midlands and South Wales, … Continue reading →

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1937: Celebration

Posted on August 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Workers’ wives celebrate end of CIO strike of Caterpillar Tractor Company East Peoria, Illinois, April 9, 1937 When the historic UAW sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, ended after a month and a half on February 11, 1937, it unleashed a … Continue reading →

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1959: Even a Kid Knows it’s Wrong to Cross a Picket Line

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

“Helen Martinez and her children (her grandchild was too young to picket) wear placards announcing that Tex-Son workers are on strike.” (source)

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1943: Day Shift

Posted on August 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

Francis Criss: Day Shift (1943)

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1937: The Daily Worker

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

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 corvusfugit

“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

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

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

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