Eyes on labor : news photography and America's working class / Carol Quirke.
2012
HD6508 .Q57 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Eyes on labor : news photography and America's working class / Carol Quirke.
Author
Quirke, Carol.
ISBN
9780199768226 (alk. paper)
0199768226 (alk. paper)
9780199768233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0199768234 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0199768226 (alk. paper)
9780199768233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0199768234 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xi, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HD6508 .Q57 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.880973
Summary
"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."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
"The Quick Nervousness of Pictures is a New Language:" Depicting Organized Labor Before Photojournalism
Consuming Labor: LIFE Magazine and Mass Production Unionism, 1936-1941
Bitter Kisses: Sit-down Strike at the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, April 1937
"Strike Photos are Star Witnesses:" Photographs and Newsreels of the Memorial Day Massacre, May 1937
Steel Labor and the United Steel Workers of America's Culture of Constraint, 1936-1950
"This Picture Shows What We Are Fighting For:" Rank and File Photography of New York City's Local 65, 1933-1953.
Consuming Labor: LIFE Magazine and Mass Production Unionism, 1936-1941
Bitter Kisses: Sit-down Strike at the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, April 1937
"Strike Photos are Star Witnesses:" Photographs and Newsreels of the Memorial Day Massacre, May 1937
Steel Labor and the United Steel Workers of America's Culture of Constraint, 1936-1950
"This Picture Shows What We Are Fighting For:" Rank and File Photography of New York City's Local 65, 1933-1953.