03535nam 2200697Ia 450 991046224330332120200520144314.01-283-57729-197866138897440-19-987755-6(CKB)2670000000234064(EBL)998971(OCoLC)806953210(SSID)ssj0000704931(PQKBManifestationID)12295000(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704931(PQKBWorkID)10620159(PQKB)10875707(MiAaPQ)EBC998971(Au-PeEL)EBL998971(CaPaEBR)ebr10590410(CaONFJC)MIL388974(EXLCZ)99267000000023406420111122d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEyes on labor[electronic resource] news photography and America's working class /Carol QuirkeNew York Oxford University Pressc20121 online resource (371 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-976823-4 0-19-976822-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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, 1936-19506. "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; WIn 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 tLabor unionsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLabor unionsUnited StatesPictorial worksLabor movementUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLabor movementUnited StatesPictorial worksPhotographyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryDocumentary photographyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Labor unionsHistoryLabor unionsLabor movementHistoryLabor movementPhotographyHistoryDocumentary photographyHistory331.880973Quirke Carol857275MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462243303321Eyes on labor1914208UNINA