Hard labour posters & prints

Workers unloading coal from a barge, early twentieth century French School

Woman and children coal 'putters', Mid and East Lothian, Scotland, c1848 Unknown

Transporting Stone Blocks Friedrich von Keller

Woman and boy drawing a corve containing 3-4 cwt of coal, Bolton, Lancashire, 1848 Unknown

Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814 Lester

Prisoners at work, Sakhalin, Russia, 1890s. Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky

Tread-Wheel and Oakum-Shed at the City Prison, Holloway English School

Brixton purgatory Anonymous

Woman 'putter' dragging a sledge of coal along a narrow seam, South Wales, c1848 Unknown

Hard labor for rich merchants, nobles and criminals during the years of revolution, 1919-1921 Anonymous

In the Anchor-Forge at Soderfors. The Smiths Hard at Work Pehr Hillestrom

Norfolk Island English School

Worsted manufacturing, c1845 Unknown

Tread-Wheel and Oakum-Shed at the City Prison, Holloway Anonymous

Flushing the Sewers English School

Ceceders in Limbo - ie - vagabond's made usefull ... Ansell

Labourer Indian School

London Nightmen English School

750 Tea pickers off-loading Clive Wilson

A British ammunition column finds it hard going, World War I, c1914-c1918 Unknown

Women Transporting Refuse. War Office photography, 1916 English Photographer

The Labours of the Months: July, c. 1580 Italian master

Repairing the Railway, 1874 Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky

Bricklayers at a Building Site, 1875 Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel

Coal Miners of Le Creusot during the Second Empire Jules Ferat

Workers on the Quai de la Seine at Billancourt, 1902-3 Maximilien Luce

Stitch! Stitch!, 1876 John Everett Millais

When the Day's Work is Done Charles James Adams

Water Carrier Honore Daumier

Leisure and Labor, 1858 Frank Blackwell Mayer

Kharsakov, Russia: Labour Without Honour, Convicts Returning from Work Anonymous

Treball, Advertisement for Catalan Labor Newspaper Anonymous

Plasterer, c.1807 John Cranch

Hard Hat Anonymous

The Labour Yard of the Bethnal Green Employment Association English School

Day labourers having a hot dog and lemonade, Battery Park, New York, USA, early 1930s Unknown