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Tajen during my freelance collaboration with NGO Restless Development, in Dar es Salam (Tanzania).
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Workers from the sate of Bihar on a construction site, in New Delhi.
The whole series (in progress) and description here: www.flickr.com/photos/fredcan/sets/72157624045337618/
Brick field worker taking clay brick in to the oven. He is walking through plume of dust and smoke. This picture was taken at Manikganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh
This view looks down the stairwell of the Stamp Office in Somerset House. The floor below my location is at ground level with an exit off to the right onto the quadrangle in the centre of Somerset House. At the bottom of the staircase is the workers' entrance, via the lightwell about which I posted a photo yesterday. The decor (and height between floors) changes much for the better once at ground level and above. Note the scrollwork 'S' in the wrought-iron railings, which I assume represents the 'S' in Somerset.... Considering it is over 230 years old, the stone cantilevered staircase seems to have worn pretty well.
Located in the eastern half of the South Wing from 1789, the Stamp Office was responsible for marking all kinds of documents with an official stamp to indicate that the correct tax had been paid. Until 1855 (when the duty on newspapers was removed) every newspaper in the country was brought to Somerset House to be individually stamped here!
From the late 19th century, the noisy stamping machines and presses could be heard by passers by on the Embankment. According to one visitor the basement rooms of the stamping department were far from pleasant, "In these damp, black and comfortless recesses the clerks of the nation grope about like moles... and stamp, sign, examine, indite, doze and swear as unconscious of the revolving sun as many miserable demons of romance condemned to toil for ages in the centre." (Raymond Needham and Alexander Webster, 'Somerset House Past and Present').
In 1834, the Stamp Office was amalgamated with the Tax Office, which was taken over by the Inland Revenue in 1849. Much of Somerset House continued to occupied by tax and stamp offices until the early 21st century, the last elements only leaving in 2013.
Worker in one of the many small coalmines in Sichuan province and elswere in China. All hard work is still done by hand.
China, April 2010 (scanned slide)
The 100 Workers memorial, aka WSIB (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board) Simcoe Park Workers Monument. A monument commemorating the workers of Ontario who died in the workplace, by John Scott and Stewart H. Pollock.
From 'Street Life in London', 1877, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith.
“…The" wall working" or fence working, described by Parker as a " fine property," is a system of cheap advertising. Where a portion of a wall or fence, near some public thoroughfare, can be rented or obtained gratuitously, it is covered with an array of boards, which are hung up in the morning and taken in at night. In this instance, the boards covered with thin bills are supplied to Cannon [seated on the right], who hangs them up in the morning and receives about a shilling weekly for each board. But the number of boards afford no clue to the income derived from this mode of advertising, as an indefinite number of dummies are displayed to fill up vacant spaces. The dummies are carefully selected; the advertisements they carry must be as imposing as the names of their owners are respectable. Cannon assured me that it required tact and experience to manage this sort of property. Unfortunately the dummies have been dominant of late, owing to depression in all departments of trade. The result is that the" wall worker's " property produces a return so poor as hardly to repay the pains bestowed on its management.”
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