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The San Francisco Department Store Strike of 1937

Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 by MAMcIntosh

The story of the DSEU helps fill in gaps on working women in the Great Depression By Michael B. Reagan Introduction On a September day in 1936, nineteen year old Marion Brown came to work at the Woolworth store on the corner of Fifth and Market in San Francisco only to discover she had been[…]

Photographic Rhetoric of Early 20th-Century Labor Rights Activism on May Day

Posted on May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 by MAMcIntosh

The history of the American labor movement is a history of external and internal struggle. Abstract This article investigates American visual culture in the form of news photographs and its engagement with social (in)justice and labor legislation during the first two decades of the 20th century. Press photographs of the annual May Day parades in[…]