Compare this to the stereo image of Black children in the cotton fields in the previous case from roughly the same period. Whose children are seen as worth protecting?
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
The issue of cotton dust has been around since the start of the industrialization of cotton textiles. The damage it causes, referred to as Brown Lung Disease, is a continuing global health problem.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
This tranquil rural scene belies the issue that the bleach from this mill was likely being discharged directly into the stream where we see people fishing (and probably drinking the water as well).
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Translated, the top reads: “The contamination created by the factories poisons the communities and neighborhoods in which the workers live.”
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Translated, the top reads: “The contamination created by the factories poisons the communities and neighborhoods in which the workers live.”
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
It can be difficult to fathom that over 1,000 more people died in the Rana Plaza collapse than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. In 1911, unionization of those industries before the fire gave workers in the U.S. a forum from which to demand change. Over one hundred years later, workers seeking to organize in other countries face a similar uphill battle.
Kroch Asia Oversize TT496.B3 W46 2015 +
