Working conditions posters & prints

Farm labourers transplanting rice shoots near Kyoto, Japan Underwood & Underwood

The Four Conditions of Society: Work, 15th century Jean Bourdichon

Glass manufacturing, 1760 Unknown

Works at Blaenavon Richard Colt Hoare

Worsted manufacturing, c1845 Unknown

Day labourers having a hot dog and lemonade Anonymous

Workers at an Early British Factory of India Anonymous

Coal miner working a narrow seam, c1864. Anonymous

Silk weaver, Bethnal Green, East London, 1893 Anonymous

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. An old silk-worker (now unable to work) living on earnings of a roomer, March 1937 Lewis Hine

High Point, North Carolina - Housing. Homes of furniture workers in the same district often vary greatly Lewis Hine

Interior, Thomas Firth & Sons Norfolk Works, Sheffield, c1890 Unknown

Workmen on old Chelsea Bridge, London, 1921 Unknown

Boy sweeper by carding machines at Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Indiana in stockinged feet on a slippery floor, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Illustration of Women Working in Telegraph Office Anonymous

Switchboard operators at work Anonymous

But the Bearers, Getting Tired of Their Work, Took Me to a Farm-House for a Rest, Pleading My Exhausted Condition Anonymous

Longshoremen being picked out by a boss Anonymous

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. An old silk-worker (now unable to work) living on earnings of a roomer, March 1937 Lewis Hine

Early 19th century coal miner working a narrow seam, c1868. Anonymous

Boys making cigars at Englehardt & Co, Tampa, Florida, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

1940s man working with level on brick wall chimney construction Anonymous

John Dempsey, 11 or 12 years old, Saturday worker in the mule-spinning room at Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, Rhode Island, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

In Germany, workers sinking in molten steel French School

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philanthropist Cassell

Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Man at work, 1936 Lewis Hine

Slaves working on a tobacco plantation, 1833 Anonymous

Female Drawer in a Coal-Pit at Little Bolton, 1842 English School

Job's Comforters, from Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1825-26 William Blake

Job's Despair, from Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1825-26 William Blake

Extra John George Brown

Working on the Metro under the Place de l'Etoile, 1899 Gaston Brun

Carpenters at work, Japan Anonymous

Hot work will melt away your prison term!, ca 1935 Anonymous

Elsie and Sadie working at Yazoo City Yarn Mills, Mississippi said they were 13 years old, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Home of silk workers in rear (inner) court off Sealey St. (very poor interior), March... Lewis Hine