Working conditions posters & prints

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

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

London Nightmen English School

Worsted manufacturing, c1845 Unknown

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

Road resurfacing work repairing potholes Unknown

London Dock Strike, 1889 English Photographer

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

Engraving of Children Working in a Factory Anonymous

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

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

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

Breaker boys at Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

The Claimant at Work in the Carpenters Shop, Portsmouth Convict Prison Anonymous

12 year old Eddie Norton, makes about 40 cents a day as a sweeper at Saxon Mill, Spartanburg, North Carolina,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Rosie, aged 7, illiterate, working for a second year as an oyster shucker at Varn & Platt Canning Company, Bluffton,... Lewis Wickes Hine

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

Little Boy's Home at Farningham Britain 1891 Anonymous

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

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

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

Day labourers having a hot dog and lemonade Anonymous

Girl employees of Woolworth's five and dime store Anonymous

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

Portrait of Girl working in Cotton Mill Lewis Wickes Hine

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

Illustration of Children Working in an English Coal Mine Anonymous

Workers at the Aspi Goldmine Anonymous

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

Engraving of a Child Working in a Factory Anonymous

Glass manufacturing, 1760 Unknown

The Rat-Catchers of the Sewers English School

Illustration of Women Working in Telegraph Office Anonymous

The Three Ages of a Working Man, 1895 Leon Henri Marie Frederic

Sadie Pfeifer, only 4 feet tall, has worked for 6 months at Lancaster Cotton Mills, South Carolina, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Labourer Indian School