Menial labour posters & prints

Shoe Shine, Philadelphia, PA, 2006 James Galloway

The Emancipator of Labor and the Honest Working-People Anonymous

Taddeo Employed on Menial Tasks at Calabrese's House Federico Zuccaro

Labourer Indian School

London Nightmen English School

Mutual Respectability ... Anonymous

Russian manual labourers eating a meal Anonymous

Child labour, c. 1913 Anonymous

French Agricultural Labourer Anonymous

Labourers Putting Down a Pavement Thomas Rowlandson

Russian manual labourers eating a meal, late 19th century Unknown

Drawing of Young Child and Women Laborers in Twine Factory Anonymous

Repairing the Railway, 1874 Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky

The Labour Yard of the Bethnal Green Employment Association English School

Dawn labour, 1900 Jules Breton

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

Worsted manufacturing, c1845 Unknown

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

Mrs. Mette and her children making flowers in a dirty New York tenement, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Treball, Advertisement for Catalan Labor Newspaper Anonymous

8 year old newsboy Michael McNelis, who'd just recovered from his second bout of pneumonia, selling papers in a rain... Lewis Wickes Hine

Boy making baskets for melons at Evansville, Indiana, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Transporting Stone Blocks Friedrich von Keller

Joe Mello, aged 8 or 9 works as a mill sweeper in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1911. Lewis Wickes Hine

The Bricklayer's Labourer from Ackermann's 'World in Miniature' Frederic Shoberl

Stone Worker, 1864 Karl L.H. Mueller

The Labour Test: Needlework, 1886 Anonymous

Specimens from Mr Punch's industrial exhibition of 1850 John Leech

Women Screening Coals at the Pit's Mouth, image from 'The Wonderland of Work' by Clara L. Mateaux, published 1884 by... American School

8 year old Leo, only 4 feet tall, picks up bobbins for 15 cents a day at Elk Cotton Mills,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Un Patron or The lesson of the Apprentice, 1888 Jean Eugene Buland

Labourers at a Table, Thueringen, 1875 Otto Edmund Guenther

Work: Workman with Carnation in his Mouth, 1852-65 Ford Madox Brown

Power Loom Weaving Thomas Allom

Child labour, c. 1913 Anonymous

The Labour Market in Australia: The Unemployed Who Are Not Anxious for Employment, a Sketch in the Treasury Gardens, Melbourne Anonymous