Art - Workers and Unions
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, The Fourth
Estate (1901)
This shows the plight of some striking workers and their families:
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Hubert von Herkomer, On Strike (1891)
A determined striker with:
- his supportive (but exhausted) wife
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William Gropper, Youngstown Strike (c1937)
Shows the 1916 strike at the Youngstown Steel and Tubes factory in America, when three
strikers were killed by police.
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Joe Jones, We Demand (1934)
Workers protesting for their rights during the Great Depression.
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Isaac Soyer, Employment Agency (1937)
Four dispirited Americans in the Great Depression looking for work.
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Thomas Anshutz, The Ironworkers' Noontime (1880)
Tired workers taking a break at a nail factory in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA:
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John French Sloan, The Masses (1914)
The cover of the Masses magazine showing the Ludlow Massacre (in Colorado, America),
when five men, two women and 12 children were shot dead during a miners' strike.
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William Gropper, Automobile Industry (1941)
Car assembly line workers in Detroit, USA.
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Edvard Munch, Workers Returning Home (1915)
Tired workers leave their factory after a hard day's work:
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George Bellows, Men of the Docks (1912)
The Brooklyn docks in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background.
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