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Local Accession Number: PC 94
Description: Postcard photograph of Red Cross workers preparaing bandages during World War I.
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Collection of Anna L. Nevins
Size: 3x5
Medium: Print, Sepia
Date: c. 1914- 1918
Construction workers are tough! Without the benefit of a crane, every piece of scaffolding, as well as that yellow water jug, had to be hoisted up hand over hand, bucket brigade style.
Maidan Tahrir, Cairo, as workers demo in Madison Wisconsin to protest union-busting legislation. Credit: Muhammad Saladin Nusair
Sex workers are taking part in the International Women’s Strike (IWS), with women in over 40 countries participating. Read the A declaration from English Collective of Prostitutes and Empower Foundation, endorsed by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP.ORG) issued which puts forth some of the reasons why sex workers are striking:
“On March 8, in the spirit of solidarity as part of the International Women’s Strike, sex workers will strike against poverty, criminalization and stigma, whether by refusing to go to work, charging double rates or by any other action possible.”
The Women’s March on Washington is calling for a ‘Day without A Woman’ on March 8 too, International Women’s Day. The contingent is part of the IWS march in Oakland.
Bring Your Red Umbrellas! :-)
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We walked through a construction worker strike while we were there. They were protesting unsafe working conditions. Apparently, the strike lasted one day.
Fijian Council worker waits for the barrow to return.
Sigatoka Town Council in Fiji, still clean the streets by hand, yet to its credit Sigatoka is still one of the cleanest Councils I have seen. Their motto is "Small town, Big Heart"
Laborers work on building street infrastructure.
Credit : ILO/Apex Image
Date : 2011/07
Country : Kuwait
Internal admin issues day, Amnesty Internation offices. LabourStart Conference last full day, May 2008.
Workers put up new flag poles on Zwick's Island in Belleville, Ontario. Circa 1980.
Donated by Peggy Cameron.
Migrant workers waiting for a bus. Migrant workers make up over 85% of the population of the UAE.
Dubai.
Expecting and nursing mothers require social protection but workers in the informal economy are often not covered. Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Workplace support for mothers who are breastfeeding has been a basic provision of maternity protection.
The Philippines expanded maternity leave benefits in 2019 to align with international labour standards. The ILO also promoted exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace to advance women’s rights to maternity protection and to improve nutrition security for Filipino children. Know more: www.ilo.org/manila/projects/WCMS_379090/lang--en/index.htm
Photo ©ILO / E. Tuyay
November 2011
Manila, Philippines
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/deed.en_US.
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
Description: Brisbane Electric Supply Co. moved to 69 Ann Street from the Barton & White building in Edison Lane about 1898. They changed their name to City Electric Light Co. in 1904. (Description supplied with photograph.)
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/205838
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland
You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.
These workers from Bangladesh were about to return home because the company they worked for went bankrupt. Many of them still owe thousands of dollars to the agents who brought them to Singapore.
So yea, I saw the bunch of them standing there and chatting away so I took out my rig and started shooting. (Obviously) Soon enough, one of them walks over to me to chit chat on how he was feeling about me having my finger on the shutter in a subway. I spotted him from a mile away. The second he "unleaned" off the backwall and started towards me, I knew what was coming. No, it wasn't the guy who's looking at me in this frame. So the conversation went something like this... Let's call him Mr. Pee (Pee for Paranoid, he was a nice guy tho. He just happened not to know the rules of the company he works for so I had to tell him).
Mr. Pee (after getting close enough so I can hear him): "You know MTA doesn't allow you to take pictures of the subway."
I (am looking extremely surprised at this point) said, "Really! Last night (a lie) I read on the MTA website that general public is allowed to photograph in the subway as long as they are not using larger accessories with the camera such as flash and reflectors and what not...(a truth)"
Mr. Pee (smiling now), "Oh I'm just saying because I don't want you to get in trouble, I "think" you are not supposed to photograph in the subway..."
Now I know he's not paying attention to what I'm saying so I repeat myself with the whole "last night on the MTA website I read" jargon...
Mr. Pee, "Really?"
'Yup, really really!"
"You sure about that..."
"Absolutely. I wish I had a copy of the MTA laws but I just gave my last one to a cop who stopped me two days ago for the same reason..." (said that with the "most serious" of faces)
Mr. Pee tried to walk off but then stopped and said, "What's the purpose of the photos?"
I said this real fast, "for excessive release of dopamine in my head..."
"What? Come again..."
"Just for my personal use..."
"You a photo student..." (the train's pulling in)
"Nah, I'm a Math major at City College"
"Oh, u r a mathematician..."
"Something like that..."
I get on the train... and Mr. Pee walks back to his colleagues...
" You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towardsthe infinite.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison ?
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune.
But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthst dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. "
From : The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Worker selecting plants for the edges of the Oakley Creek at Valonia St sports field as a part of the Well-Connected Alliance motorway project.
A construction worker up on a hill in Talcahuano, Chile, epicenter of the 2010 8.8 quake that rocked Chile... sitting at a bus stop.
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Construction workers, Pakistan. © ILO/J. Maillard.
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This soup kitchen is located in the Little India district of Singapore and caters for migrant workers from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other Asian countries.