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Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard...
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Textile Workers Strike

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Description: Textile workers strike in Alabama. Signs in back read, "This Company Is Unfair To The Laboring Class + It Is Your Fight As Well As Ours. Don't Scab. Dal...
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Greenville Mills Brochure

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Description: A page from a Greenville Mills employee brochure showing employees enjoying themselves playing baseball, playing at a family picnic, and smoking.
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: Women, men and children pose on the front porch of the main house. Men and women occupy the rocking chairs that are lined up on the left along the porch ra...
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Man and Young Boy Cutting Manila Plants

Date: 1910
Description: A man and a young boy outdoors cutting manila plants.
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Hosiery Branch 169 Negotiating Committee

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Description: Four women, six men, and one boy pose together. Caption reads: "OFFICIALS AND NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE of Hosiery Branch 169 were instrumental in winning the ...

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