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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.