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Workers Collection (page 3)

"Workers: The Backbone of Nations, United by Labor" From the bustling streets of China during the Cultural Revolution to the coal miners in South Wales and Cornwall

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Workers Collection: Singer Factory / Postcard
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Workers Collection: Workers Going Home
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Workers Collection: J. G. Graves Ltd. Enterprise Works, Sheffield, Yorkshire, c. 1900
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Workers Collection: The Great Docks Strike of 1912 - Scene at Grays, Essex
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Workers Collection: Cotton Plantation
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Workers Collection: View of Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
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Workers Collection: John Peck & Co: Coats and Aprons for Butchers
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Workers Collection: John Peck & Co: Coats and Aprons for Butchers
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Workers Collection: Soviet poster celebrating three years since the Russian Revolution, 1920 (colour litho)
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Workers Collection: The tea boys at Lloyd Loom. 1938
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Workers Collection: Welsh miner in coal mine pushing truck
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Workers Collection: Cricket field, Bournville, Birmingham (chromolitho)
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Workers Collection: Bacon, bread and meat slicing machine (litho)
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Workers Collection: Recruitment Campaign 'Teamwork Builds Ships', pub. 1917 (colour lithograph)
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Workers Collection: Early morning in Covent Garden Market (b / w photo)
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Workers Collection: The Tyne Bridge under construction, 23rd February 1928 (b / w photo)
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Workers Collection: Thailand farmers
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Workers Collection: Shipyard workers, engineers and boilermakers leave after the first day at work at Scott
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Workers Collection: Labour Union Poster - Great London Dock Strike
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Workers Collection: Josephine Baker singing to British Factory Workers
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Workers Collection: Woodkeepers cottages, Tregothnan, St Michael Penkivel, Cornwall. Probably early 1900s
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Workers Collection: Workers at Sheffield Smelting Co. Ltd. Sheffield, Yorkshire, late 19th cent
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Workers Collection: Battery of Cornish stamps with engine man, miners and grass captain (or surface captain) in white
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Workers Collection: WW1 - Home Front - The Queens Work for Women Fund
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Workers Collection: Communist China - training barefoot doctors
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Workers Collection: Clamping Turf in a Fermanagh Peat Bog
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Workers Collection: Cutting the Turf in a Co. Derry Peat Bog
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Workers Collection: Mrs A. E. Grant (Bettine Stuart-Wortley) as a nurse, WW1
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Workers Collection: London Life - The Busy Docks of the Port of London
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Workers Collection: Working shaft in the Kilsby Tunnel 8 July 1937 The tunnel is located near the village
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Workers Collection: Hop picking at Maplescombe Farm, Farningham, Kent. 1938
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Workers Collection: Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead BL22201_003
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Workers Collection: Construction of St Pancras Station, London, c 1867
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Workers Collection: Boat Maintenance
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Workers Collection: Wrecked goods train, Llanelli railway strike riots, Wales
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Workers Collection: French poster for the Socialist Party (SFIO)
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Workers Collection: An old Kikuyu lady picks coffee Taken in the 1960 s
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Workers Collection: Armstrongs Elswick Works, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1900
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Workers Collection: The Vaux Brewery in Sunderland - on the day that it was announced that the North East
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Workers Collection: Crowd outside the closed East India Dock Gates, Poplar, London, 1897
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Workers Collection: Printing the Daily Telegraph newspaper, London, c1900 (1903)
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Workers Collection: The Engineer, 1867
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Workers Collection: Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. 1831
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Workers Collection: Trade union. Manifest published by the World Congress in London
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Workers Collection: Gandhi in England 1931
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Workers Collection: WW1 - Pekin Camp, Camp for Chinese Labour Corps, Mont Kemmel
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Workers Collection: Women hop pickers in Beltring, Kent. Each worker has a gas mask over their shoulder
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Workers Collection: The R34 airship being walked out


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"Workers: The Backbone of Nations, United by Labor" From the bustling streets of China during the Cultural Revolution to the coal miners in South Wales and Cornwall, they have always played a vital role in shaping societies. In Chairman Mao's China, a powerful cultural revolution poster depicted workers as heroes, inspiring unity and progress. Meanwhile, deep underground in shaft lifts and at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen and South Wales coal mines, brave miners risked their lives daily to fuel industrial growth. The Workers May-Pole design showcased solidarity among laborers striving for socialist ideals. In 1910 Britain, even political parties recognized the importance with colorful posters appealing for support. Swindon witnessed the dedication of builders constructing diesel locomotives while LNER promoted North East Coast Exhibition through an artistic poster celebrating hardworking individuals. Artists like Harold Harvey captured scenes from clay pits in Cornwall - be it Polkanuggo Quarry or Leswidden - highlighting arduous work that sustained local economies. Soviet propaganda also exalted workers' contributions under the sun of the motherland. Boris Parmeev's iconic poster from 1970s USSR symbolized strength gained through collective effort. Across continents and eras, these glimpses into worker's lives remind us that they are not just cogs within a system but essential pillars upon which nations stand tall. Their unwavering determination fuels progress and shapes our shared future.