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

by Carol Quirke

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199768234
• ISBN13: 9780199768233
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"