History of Labor Unions Images
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This print by Anton Refregier, a copy of a mural he painted in a San Francisco post office, glorifies labor's side in the hard-fought struggles of the 1930s.
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Lewis Hine's photo shows the young children who worked long hours in early-20th-century factories.
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An engraving from Harper's Weekly of the bombing that tarnished labor's image in the turbulent 1880s.
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This girl, only 4'3" tall, had worked in the mill for a year, sometimes at night, for 48¢ a day.
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Workers pass the time during the 44-day strike at the Flint, Michigan, GM plant that brought in the United Auto Workers.
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The man who was most influential in shaping the labor movement in the United States.
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The longtime AFL-CIO leader, an icon of Big Labor.
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César Chávez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union, at a 1972 rally.