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Eyes on labor : news photography and America's working class /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quirke, Carol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "The central instrument of our time"
  • "The quick nervousness of pictures is a new language": organized labor before photojournalism
  • Consuming labor : LIFE magazine and mass production Unionism, 1936-1942
  • Bitter kisses : pictures of the Hershey Chocolate sit-down strike, April 1937
  • "Strike photos are star witnesses": photographs and newsreels of Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre, May 1937
  • Steel Labor and the United Steelworkers of America's culture of constraint, 1936-1950
  • "This pictue shows what we are fighting for": Local 65 distributive workers' rank-and-file photography, 1933-1953
  • Conclusion.