Eyes on Labor: News Photograpy and America's Working Class by Quirke, Carol
Eyes on Labor: News Photograpy and America's Working Class by Quirke, Carol

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

In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions;...
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Eyes on Labor: News Photograpy and America's Working Class by Quirke, Carol

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

$150.59
Eyes on Labor: News Photograpy and America's Working Class by Quirke, Carol

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

$150.59
Author: Carol Quirke
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.


Author: Carol Quirke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/13/2012
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199768233


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2013

About the Author

Carol Quirke is an Associate Professor of American Studies at SUNY Old Westbury. She has published essays and reviews in the American Quarterly, Reviews in American History, and New Labor Forum. She is a former community organizer, who worked on economic justice, immigrant rights, and public housing issues before receiving her Ph.D. in U.S. History. She has a close connection to the events described in Eyes on Labor-her grandfather was working in the Republic Steel mill when police shot strikers on Chicago's Southeast Side; her great-uncle was one of the 100 plus men, women and children who were shot by police in what is called the Memorial Day Massacre.


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