What's New

The ILGWU:  Social Unionism in Action                       

 

Labor in Crisis -- Memory, Art, and Race, 1911 - 1929

 

"Play It Again, Sam" - Songs of the labor and progressive movements  of the 1930s and 1940s, recorded by Henry Foner.

 

Nina Talbot -- Paintings from Brooklyn

Strike. - Photographs by members of the TWU from the December 2005 NYC transit strike.

Songs From the New York City Labor Chorus
Scenes of American Labor

Five Photographers - Images of work and solidarity from 1930 to the present.

Robert B. Reich recently told us that he certainly could have used laborarts.org as a resource when he was the U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993-1997).  He writes:

These works not only tell the story of the labor movement in the 20th century of the United States but are an enduring testament to the working men and women who fought for a better way of life in the workplace and who have been the backbone of America's unparalleled prosperity in the last 100 years.

Other featured exhibits:     

Impounded: The Internment of Japanese Americans through the lens of Dorothea Lange  -  Selections from a new book of photographs, together with additional images from the National Archives, many of them stored away since they were taken in 1942.    The book is Impounded:  Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, edited by  Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro (Norton, 2006).

 

 

NLRB Decision  -  Millions of workers could lose their rights to join a union as a result of a recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board.

 

 

"my daddy was a miner- Photographs of Appalachian miners and their communities by Builder Levy.

 

 

Ralph Fasanella - paintings of scenes from working- class New York during the last half of the 20th century.

 

 

seema weatherwax -  photographs of 1940s California from the collection of  documentary photographer Seema Weatherwax, who passed away at the age of 100 in 2006.

 

 

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.  

 

 

On High: Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers 

 

 

Images from the Waterfront, historical photographs from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

 

 

Sixteen Tons: Nuggets from the United Mine Workers of America.

 

 

Union Square, A National Historic Landmark, launched on May 9, 2003, at a celebration in Union Square to dedicate a bench in honor of Debra E. Bernhardt, to dedicate a stamp in honor of Cesar Chavez, and to celebrate the six labor history plaques recently installed in the Square.

          

 



© Copyright Labor Arts Inc.