... Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. To replace men who have been called to armed service, many young girls ... jobs never before held by women. Her job is shuttling workers between two Midwest war plants for Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co." ...
July 1909. "Some of the workers in a Maryland packing company." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View ... Baltimore Biloxi Connection.. Before the migrant crop workers, there were European immigrants who followed work all along the Eastern ... Bay where the schooners docked to unload their catches. Workers lived near the factor. Some were fortunate to find low cost housing in ...
October 1942. "Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy ... I know that the majority of these women were actual workers, but how many were just models that they brought in for these photo ...
... Not many ragtops.
Red-baiting Assuming these are workers' cars, I'm guessing many of the owners were members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). The Schenectady local represented about 20,000 GE ...
... Alabama. Cousa Court housing project for defense workers in boom area around the DuPont Powder Plant. The Smiths share the ... everyone.
A bit of black powder humor "Defense workers in boom area around the DuPont Powder Plant."
Boom!
Staged but ...
... What a difference compared to what the wartime defence workers in other countries reportedly had to put up with.
Upgraded housing ... get there. Some even haven't arrived there yet. The former workers' paradise still has some kommunalkas ( ... shifts of production requiring thousands of workers, all of whom required adequate housing. Here in San Diego, large old ...
... where I work. You can really tell the management from the workers in this photo.
But everyone (except the two rodent control officers) ... work (too literally) or is safety awareness among the workers a more modern thing?
[I don't think common sense was a 21st ...
... 1943. "Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Ruth De ... were recruited form (sic) the families of local sawmill workers. It was felt that they would be more reliable and have an ...
... project was built in the neighborhood which was for workers in the war construction industry. Business was still good while the war ... and other industries were shutting down, and letting off workers, people had less money and took advantage of the credit that he let ...
... guess that these are the personal vehicles of construction workers on the site in the background.
In those days, a union construction ... late model cars were parked in such a scuzzy place; the workers had nowhere else to park.
Anyone recognize the building in the ...
January 1909. Augusta, Georgia. "Noon Hour. Workers in Enterprise Cotton Mill. The wheels are kept running through noon ... with having to tackle more work because of layoffs of co-workers. As with PC? If my co-worker doesn't like me enjoying my lunch break, ...
... most contentious labor events in American history, when workers, led by Eugene V. Debs, went on strike against George Pullman and his ... national commission that criticized Pullman's treatment of workers as "un-American."
Labor Day was established the same year. It was ...
... - every time you run one of these pictures of women war workers I end up falling in love with women who were born before my 78-year-old ... "every time you run one of these pictures of women war workers I end up falling in love with women who were born before my 78-year-old ...
... There doesn't appear to be any heavy machinery. Were the workers allowed to talk to each other? Probably not. Is there any written or ... an hour. - Dave]
Factory work Factory workers seem to get themselves into a routine and they work and talk to each ...