9780199768233-0199768234-Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class

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

ISBN-13: 9780199768233
ISBN-10: 0199768234
Edition: 1
Author: Carol Quirke
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 376 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199768233
ISBN-10: 0199768234
Edition: 1
Author: Carol Quirke
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 376 pages

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Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class (ISBN-13: 9780199768233 and ISBN-10: 0199768234), written by authors Carol Quirke, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Photojournalism & Essays (Labor & Industrial Relations, Economics, United States History, Class, Sociology, Photography & Video) books. You can easily purchase or rent Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Photojournalism & Essays books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how news photography brought workers into the nation's mainstream. Carol Quirke focuses on images ignored by scholars but seen by millions of Americans in the news of the day. Part visual analysis, part labor and cultural history, Quirke analyzes over one hundred photographs: stereographs of the Uprising of 1877, tabloid photos of the 1919 strike wave, photo-essays in the nationally popular LIFE Magazine, and even photos taken by a union camera club. Quirke anchors her interpretations in a lively historical narrative that takes readers from Washington D.C. hearings, to small towns in Indiana and Pennsylvania, to local union halls and to New York City boardrooms. Illuminating why unions, employers, and news publishers vied to represent workers with the camera's eye, Eyes on Labor explores how Americans understood the complex and contradictory portrait of labor they produced.

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