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Newsies smoking at Skeeter's Branch.

Lewis Hine, Photographer of the American Working Class

Lewis Hine captured the misery, dignity, and occasional bursts of solidarity within US working-class life in the early twentieth century.
by Billy Anania via Jacobin
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on June 8, 2021
Women at Ellis Island in the traditional dress of their country of origin.

Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island

Photographs of Ellis Island and the people who arrived there seeking a better life.
by Carrie McBride via The New York Public Library on April 14, 2022
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Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor Posture

The 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.
by Zoe Adams via The Nation
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on November 20, 2024
Child laborers cleaning fruit.

The Child Labor of Early Capitalism Is Making a Big Comeback in the US

Child labor was common in urban, industrial America for most of the country’s history. Now lawmakers are making concerted efforts to repeal statutes that prohibit it.
by Steve Fraser via Jacobin
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on July 7, 2023
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The 1940s Fight Against the Equal Rights Amendment Was Bipartisan and Crossed Ideological Lines

Support for and opposition to the ERA are not positions that are fundamentally tied to either conservatism or liberalism.
by Rebecca DeWolf via HNN on May 2, 2021
Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Demonstration In New York

Cameras for Class Struggle

How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.
by Max Pearl via Art In America on April 21, 2021
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