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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462243303321

Autore

Quirke Carol

Titolo

Eyes on labor [[electronic resource] ] : news photography and America's working class / / Carol Quirke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-57729-1

9786613889744

0-19-987755-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Disciplina

331.880973

Soggetti

Labor unions - United States - History - 20th century

Labor unions - United States

Labor movement - United States - History - 20th century

Labor movement - United States

Photography - United States - History - 20th century

Documentary photography - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "The Central Instrument of Our Time"; 1. "The Quick Nervousness of Pictures Is a New Language": Organized Labor Before Photojournalism; 2. Consuming Labor: LIFE Magazine and Mass Production Unionism, 1936-1942; 3. Bitter Kisses: Pictures of the Hershey Chocolate Sit-Down Strike, April 1937; 4. "Strike Photos Are Star Witnesses": Photographs and Newsreels of Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre, May 1937; 5. Steel Labor and the United Steelworkers of America's Culture of Constraint, 1936-1950

6. "This Picture Shows What We Are Fighting For": Local 65 Distributive Workers' Rank-and-File Photography, 1933-1953Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

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 t