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Eyes on Labor

By Carol Quirke

Eyes on Labor

By Carol Quirke

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In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how news photography brought workers into the nation's mainstream. Carol Quirke focuses on images ignored by scholars but seen by millions of Americans in the news of the day. Part visual analysis, part labor and cultural history, Quirke analyzes over one hundred photographs: stereographs of the Uprising of 1877, tabloid photos of the 1919 strike wave, photo-essays in the nationally popular LIFE Magazine, and even photos taken by a union camera club. Quirke anchors her interpretations in a lively historical narrative that takes readers from Washington D.C. hearings, to small towns in Indiana and Pennsylvania, to local union halls and to New York City boardrooms. Illuminating why unions, employers, and news publishers vied to represent workers with the camera's eye, Eyes on Labor explores how Americans understood the complex and contradictory portrait of labor they produced.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
372
Release Date:
2012-08-13
Publication Date:
2012-08-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199768234
ISBN13:
9780199768233
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
565 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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