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Artistic licence or were construction workers really that glamorous?
73 Jalan Magazine (Magazine Road), 10300 George Town, Pulau Pinang.
Hui Aun Association, or Hui Aun Kong Hooi, is a Hokkien district association founded in 1914. It is located along Magazine Road, across from 1st Avenue Mall. Most of its members are from the working class, including trishaw peddlers, mechanics and construction workers. Women construction workers also joined this association. From this bottom rung of society, a few of its members had risen to become some of the richest and most influential people in Penang. Among them was the late Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew.
The Hui Aun Association is housed in an Art Deco style building from 1938. To celebrate its heritage, the Hui Aun Association recently had its side walls painted with the Woman Construction Workers Mural.
A midwife, who has received training from MCHIP examines a women at a health clinic in Fenerive Est, Madagascar Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (Kate Holt/MCSP)
Coffee farm workers in Colombia participate in a training on workers rights. We are partnering with local governmental organization SENA (National Learning Service) in Colombia to support independent training on rights and responsibilities. The work with local partners is important since it allows us to take advantage of local knowledge and it helps us to go a longer way with the resources we have to support workers.
When you join the Bank…
It opens the door to the Bank Officers’ Union
The New Zealand Bank Officers’ Union is you. You and your fellow workers in your own democratically run organisation which looks after the interests of staff in the five Trading Banks and in Datasystems Ltd.
The union is led by a President, to Vice-Presidents and a National Council who all work in Banks and understand the needs on Bank employees.
The Union employees a small and dedicated staff. It has developed a reputation for trying hard for its members. It is building a solid foundation of research and bases its cases on fact and logic
If members need help from the Union they get it. Fast. No other union gives better service for money.
We look forward to your active interest, and we’re sure we can win your respect as a necessary part of your life at work.
This is what the Bank Officers’ Union does for you:-
•It helps you get reasonable pay rates.
•It helps to improve your allowances, holidays and work provisions
•It defends the benefits which you already have.
•It protects you against arbitrary dismissal or other unfair treatment.
•It will provide someone to speak for you to your employer
•It takes cases to the courts to ensure that the la is upheld.
•It helps to make sure that your workplace is not too crowded, too cold or too hot.
•It helps to ensure that your safety is protected.
•It helps to uphold equal prospects for all.
•It looks ahead to future developments.
•It gives you advice or information when you need it.
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
A demonstration of vacuum extraction of the baby during a regional conference, Kisumu, Kenya.
If you work and do your best
You'll get the sack like all the rest.
But if you laze around and bugger about
You'll live to see the job right out.
The work is hard - the pay is small
So take your time and sod them all.
'Cos when you're dead you'll be forgot,
So don't try to do the bloody lot.
Or on your tombstone neatly laquered,
Those famous words:
"Just Bleeding Knackered"!
Workers take a break from building Crossrail to watch the parade. Others viewed the parade from the balcony.
Built between 1889 and 1895, this grand and massive Chateauesque-style mansion was designed by Richard Morris Hunt for George Washington Vanderbilt II and his wife, Edith Vanderbilt, whom had decided that Asheville would be an ideal place to build a French-style self-sufficient country estate.
The house is the largest private residence in the United States, with a 178,926 square foot (16,622.8 square meter) interior floor space. The house was named for De Bilt, the place where the Vanderbilt family came from in the Netherlands, and originally sat at the center of a 125,000 acre (195 square mile or 510 square kilometer) estate, which included Mount Pisgah, much of the present Pisgah National Forest Biltmore Village, and the upscale Asheville suburbs of Biltmore Forest and Biltmore Park, much of which has been parceled off and sold to help assist with keeping the estate running, with 86,700 acres of reforested land surrounding Mount Pisgah being sold to the United States government in 1915. Prior to becoming part of the estate, the land, which straddles the French Broad River, was home to small farms, and was in very poor condition, with Frederick Law Olmsted designing the landscape of the estate, reforesting large areas and creating a park-like setting with natural and artificial landscaped areas surrounding the house.
Part of the estate included Biltmore Village, formerly a small railroad town known as Best, which was redesigned to resemble a rural French medieval village, with a fan-shaped street grid centering around the Episcopal Cathedral of All Souls, which was attended regularly by the Vanderbilt family. The village also features Norman-style cottages, various shops, a train station, a hospital, and a school for the families of workers at the estate, with many of the buildings being designed by Richard Sharp Smith, who took over as lead architect following the death of Richard Morris Hunt. Today featuring many shops, restaurants, and tourist accommodations, Biltmore Village has since been annexed by the city of Asheville. The portion of the estate bordering Biltmore Village features an iconic gatehouse, which melds the cottage-like materials of the village with the more imposing design language of the mansion inside the estate. Between the gatehouse and the mansion, a 3-mile-long (5 kilometer long) driveway known as the Approach Road winds its way through carefully cultivated landscapes, as well as crossing under Interstate 40.
The grounds around the estate include a walled garden with rusticate granite walls, a large rose garden, gardener’s cottage, and a conservatory featuring various tropical plants that would not naturally grow in the local climate. Closer to the house, the large South Terrace enclosed by a rusticated retaining wall stands immediately south of the house, with a gazebo at the southwest corner of the terrace. East of the terrace is the Italian Garden, which features a formal layout, fountains, and Italian-style sculptures, with a more natural Shrub Garden and vine-covered arbor south of the Italian Garden. In front of the house is a large lawn, which runs east to the Esplanade, a stone wall with a series of stairs and ramps that switchback to an upper lawn, with a decorative series of six stone fountains embedded into the base of the wall, and a small belvedere with a Statue of Diana at the upper end of the lawn. West of the house is a grassy knoll, which leaves the views from the house of the surrounding mountains unobstructed. Finally, below the Walled Garden, an enlarged former mill pond, which predated the estate by many decades, is now known as the Biltmore Bass Pond, and has been stocked with fish, and features a boathouse, with a dam and waterfall at the lower end of the pond along the exit road from the house.
The Biltmore House features elements from various historic French Chateaux, including the stair tower and hipped roofs of the Chateau Royal de Blois, as well as various elements from the Chateau de Chenonceau, Chateau de Chambord, also in France, and Waddesdon Manor in England. The house features a facade clad in Indiana Limestone, with lots of Gothic details, leaded glass windows, casement windows, and double-hung windows, towers with steeply pitched hipped slate roofs and decorative copper cresting, ornate wall dormers, an elevator tower at one side of the staircase, a large conservatory known as the Winter Garden next to the front entrance tower, which features an octagonal glass roof with an wooden Gothic support structure, a loggia on the west side of the house with sweeping views of the Pisgah National Forest in the distance, and a stable wing on the north end of the house, with a porte cochere tower entrance to the stable courtyard, stone chimneys, and a loggia on the south side of the house. The smooth limestone exterior of the house is contrasted by the house’s rusticated granite base, quarried on the grounds of the house, which also was utilized in the massive retaining wall around the adjacent South Terrace.
Inside, the house features luxurious finishes, including carved woodwork, intricate plaster details, electric lighting and steam heat, multiple fireplaces, a large kitchen and laundry in the basement, many guest rooms, a massive four-story chandelier in the grand staircase, a basement swimming pool, bowling alley, and gymnasium, a large grand banquet hall, bedrooms for staff, and a two-story library. The house features antiques and decorations sourced from the Vanderbilts’ many international excursions and antique dealers, as well as lots of art.
The house was opened for public tours in 1930, which has, over time, expanded in scale to feature more areas of the house and estate. The house was utilized to store 62 paintings and 17 sculptures from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC 1942, with Asheville believed to be a safe haven for them in the event that the United States was invaded by a foreign military, with the house remaining the repository for these important works until 1944, when the tides of war had turned. Biltmore Estate was designated as a National Historic Landmark 1963, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, owing to the house’s significant size, intact detailing, and connections to notable individuals. Still owned by the Cecil family, the descendants of Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, George and Edith Vanderbilt’s only child, the house is today utilized as a museum and open to tours, with the 8,000 remaining acres comprising the modern grounds of the estate having been developed with tourist amenities, including the conversion of the estate’s various barns into museums, restaurants, and a winery, as well as the construction of a luxury hotel, shops, and additional support facilities. The estate today is a major tourist attraction, seeing nearly 2 million visitors every year.
Designer: Shanghai Worker's Revolutionary Rebel General Headquarters
1967, February
Thorougly criticize the bureaus of industry of the Shanghai city, region and district and the reactionary line of the capitalist class. Oath taking rally. Hold high the great red banner of Mao Zedong Thought.
Chedi pipan Shanghai shiquxian gongyeju zichan jieji fandong luxian - shishi dahui - gaoju Mao Zedong sixiang weida hongqi (彻底批判上海市区县工业局资产阶级反动路线誓师大会高举毛泽东思想伟大红旗)
Call number: BG E16/353 (IISH collection)
See: chineseposters.net/themes/cultural-revolution-campaigns
sorry about the title but it just seemed apropos:
view large (if you are a voyeur)
Robin Ducker Photography 2009 - not to be used without my express consent
When you join the Bank…
It opens the door to the Bank Officers’ Union
The New Zealand Bank Officers’ Union is you. You and your fellow workers in your own democratically run organisation which looks after the interests of staff in the five Trading Banks and in Datasystems Ltd.
The union is led by a President, to Vice-Presidents and a National Council who all work in Banks and understand the needs on Bank employees.
The Union employees a small and dedicated staff. It has developed a reputation for trying hard for its members. It is building a solid foundation of research and bases its cases on fact and logic
If members need help from the Union they get it. Fast. No other union gives better service for money.
We look forward to your active interest, and we’re sure we can win your respect as a necessary part of your life at work.
This is what the Bank Officers’ Union does for you:-
•It helps you get reasonable pay rates.
•It helps to improve your allowances, holidays and work provisions
•It defends the benefits which you already have.
•It protects you against arbitrary dismissal or other unfair treatment.
•It will provide someone to speak for you to your employer
•It takes cases to the courts to ensure that the la is upheld.
•It helps to make sure that your workplace is not too crowded, too cold or too hot.
•It helps to ensure that your safety is protected.
•It helps to uphold equal prospects for all.
•It looks ahead to future developments.
•It gives you advice or information when you need it.
A photograph of four men digging a ditch in Belleville, Ontario.
One of a series of photographs donated by City Clerk of the City of Belleville, William C. Moreton in August 1987. These photos were originally located in City Hall.
Starting in 1918, long before Modernism or the International Style were thought of, the Crittall Manufacturing Co. constructed a small estate of houses for its workers. They were of concrete block, with flat roofs and exposed lintels. Sand for the concrete was excavated on site. I inspected the interior of one of them. The stairs were of concrete (some, I was informed, are of steel), and so was the floor of the upstairs rooms. Downstairs, on the ceiling, could be traced the impression of the wood grain, bitten into the concrete when it was laid down wet on planks. The rooflines, as built, were raised at the corners and at the centre of each semi-detached pair. All, of course, had Crittall metal-framed windows. Today, not one house has its raised roofline and, except for a couple of listed examples, there is not a Crittall window to be seen.
Not strictly a Finsec event, but here's a few photos of the Service and Food Workers' Union Nga Ringa Tota rally in Wellington on International Cleaners Day.
The 'Fair Deal for Cleaners' campaign that this rally is part of aims to provide a voice to the low-waged largely immigrant female workforce, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, who are calling on big property owners to support decency in their workplaces.
Caught this guy working on dismantling Jian Min Cun, a slum between the railway and the elevated highway, right off Zhongtan Lu. When the job is done he and his fresh-faced colleagues with their young wives will go back to Anhui.
Kiev-88, Volna lens, Kodak PPN160 expired in 2006. I started pasting a customized EV table at the back of the film cartridge - makes me faster with choosing the correct exposure settings.
Artists Clare Herron and Chris Beck created this artwork in partnership with Groundswell Community Mural Project’s TEMA (Teen Empowerment Mural Apprenticeship) and fifteen youth. The mural uses paint, printed parachute cloth, and mosaics to depict the process of pollination and show its significance on a larger scale in a visual narrative 200 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Worker Bees by Clare Herron and Chris Beck
Presented with Groundswell Community Mural Project and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Tillary Street and Adams Street, Brooklyn