Tag Archives: Labor

1940: Top Women

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

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 corvusfugit

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

Posted on August 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

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

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1919: Buffer Girls

Posted on August 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Rothenstein: Buffer Girls (1919) “Buffer girls” were women workers in the Sheffield metal industries who polished cutlery and silverware.

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2012: Celebration

Posted on July 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Siphiwe Sibeko: Mineworkers at the Lonmin Marikana mine in South Africa celebrate a 22% pay increase after an extended strike (2012) (source)

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1921: Timeless Poetry

Posted on July 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

FORGET IT Forget the slander you have heard. Forget the hasty unkind word; Forget the quarrel and the cause, Forget the whole affair, because Forgetting is the only way. Forget the trials you have had, Forget the weather if it’s … Continue reading →

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1917: Boeing Factory

Posted on July 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

Boeing seamstresses sewing fabric to the wing of a Model C seaplane in the company’s first factory, 1917. (source)

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1916: Don’t Be A Scab

Posted on July 16, 2017 by corvusfugit

I’d seen this beautiful photograph before, but hadn’t realized it existed in such high definition. I retouched it a little (the original is here, at the Library of Congress) and drew out some of the details: The date for the … Continue reading →

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1912: English Lessons

Posted on July 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

NEW WORLD LESSONS FOR OLD WORLD PEOPLES. Lessons in English for Foreign Girls. Thousands of immigrants come to America every year. Some of them have belonged to labor organizations in the old country, many of them have not. Most of … Continue reading →

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1933: As for Myself, I Calmly Continued to Paint

Posted on July 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Diego Rivera writes about the reactions to his murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Thoroughly immersed in my labors though I was, I became conscious after a time, that whispers were beginning to circulate through the city concerning certain … Continue reading →

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