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Featuring recordings of Robeson singing eight songs he often sang at NMU conventions |
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Why Unions? — Art from the National Maritime Union Features graphic art from the 1940s by Harold Price, Rockwell Kent and William Gropper |
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Making Labor's History Visible The CUNY/LaborArts Essay Contest — read the 2011 winning essays, find out how to enter for 2012 |
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Vanished Structures and Forgotten Skills Janet Wells Greene curates images of artisans and union craftsmen building and rebuilding the NYC skyline |
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Union Banners Then and Now Featuring four labor banners from the 19th century and 27 banners from the twentieth century NYC garment industry |
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Jane Latour interviews women who were pioneers in skilled blue-collar jobs |
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Social Unionism in Action Garment union initiatives in organizing, immigration, civil rights, health care and culture |
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Everyday Heroes in Schools of Love and Learning |
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Paintings from Brooklyn |
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Labor in Crisis — Memory, Art & Race Art from The Crisis magazine, part of the attempt by W.E.B. Du Bois and the newly formed NAACP to use images to change people's minds about race. Fifteen images from the years 1911 - 1929. |
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Songs from the Labor and Progressive Movements of the 1930s and 40s, performed by Henry Foner |
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Civil Rights History Walks into the Classroom Marvin Rich visits an elementary school class to talk about his experiences with CORE and the fight for civil rights. |
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Songs from the New York City Labor Chorus |
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Scenes of American Labor |
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Images of work and solidarity from 1930 to the present. |
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The Japanese American internment through the lens of Dorothea Lange.
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Photographs by members of the TWU from the December 2005 NYC transit strike. |
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A disastrous decision from the National Labor Relations Board. |
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Words and music from a 1940 musical about department store workers by Henry Foner and Norman Franklin. |
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Photographs of 1940s California from the collection of documentary photographer Seema Weatherwax, who passed away at the age of 100 in 2006 |
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Photographs of Appalachian miners and their communities by Builder Levy
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Paintings of scenes from working-class New York during the last half of the 20th century
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Solidarity Forever: A Look at Wobbly Culture cartoons, graphic art, songs and poetry, evoking the vibrant folk culture of the IWW of the early 20th century.
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Portraits of Labor: Photographs of work from the 1930s - 1950s Features photographs from the Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, New York City. Many of the original prints were on display at the gallery in June and July 2005. See howardgreenberg.com for details. |
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Portraits of longshoremen from 1935 and paintings of work on the docks from the 1950s.
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Union Square, A National Historic Landmark Why is the square important to the history of working people in America? |
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Songs from the 1930s and 1940s. |
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MISSING documents a few of the spontaneous shrines that appeared around New York City after September 11, 2001. |
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Little Tradeswomen Coloring Book The first in a series of Labor Arts exhibits for children. |
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Graphic art communicates the message "A Hand Up, Not a Handout." |
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The Hotel and Motel Trades Council of New York tells their story in photos and graphics. |
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives Images from the "culture of solidarity" in twentieth century New York City. |
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Original art about the relationship between working people and American History. |
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Examples of Labor Arts -- the artistic expressions of the labor movement that have moved working people to action. |
