Eyes on Labor News Photography and America's Working Class

Name: Eyes on Labor News Photography and America's Working Class
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ISBN: 9780199768233

ISBN-10: 0199768234

ISBN-13: 9780199768233

Edition: 2012

Authors: Carol Quirke

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Eyes on Labornarrates an essential chapter in American cultural history, offering a fascinating broad-stroke history of the relationship of photography to the complex and troubled history of twentieth-century labor and unionization movements. It examines a subject that is critical to understanding the Great Depression, the New Deal, and beyond-organized labor-in the form of its representation in a realm that has received little attention-news photography. The book provides simultaneously, a detailed history of the representation (and self-representation) of labor within labor movements (something rarely addressed, given the usual focus on iconic photographs and images of heroic, idealized…

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List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.21" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "The Central Instrument of Our Time"



"The Quick Nervousness of Pictures Is a New Language": Organized Labor Before Photojournalism



Consuming Labor: LIFE Magazine and Mass Production Unionism, 1936-1942



Bitter Kisses: Pictures of the Hershey Chocolate Sit-Down Strike, April 1937



"Strike Photos Are Star Witnesses": Photographs and Newsreels of Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre, May 1937



Steel Labor and the United Steelworkers of America's Culture of Constraint, 1936-1950



"This Picture Shows What We Are Fighting For": Local 65 Distributive Workers' Rank-and-File Photography, 1933-1953


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index