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...Laura Hapke Robert Koehler's The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest by James M. Dennis. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2011 xxi + 235 pp. , $24.95 (paper) © 2012 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2012...

...Philip Samponaro Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS Painting a Nightmare: Women and Radium Work at the E. Ingraham Company, 1923 –1935 Philip Samponaro In 1927, fi fteen-year-old Celeste P...

...Gigi Peterson This article analyzes how the thirty-year journey of a mural illustrates changes in a community and the nature of its civil rights activism. Painted by Pablo O'Higgins in 1945 for the Seattle Ship Scalers union hall, The Struggle Against Racial Discrimination depicted aspirations...

... office workers' group, and now directs Working America, a community-based AFL-CIO group for working people who do not have a union, founded in 2003. Windham paints Nussbaum as a foremother of contemporary “alt-labor,” labor groups like Working America that are not based in traditional collective...

...Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia Hills FIGURE 1. Philip Tipperman, Labor Strike , 1939. Courtesy of Brooklyn College. A modernist painting of a man holding a sign in front of a picket line. FIGURE 2. Philip Tipperman, Labor Unity , 1939. Courtesy of Brooklyn College...

... that effectively uses a variety of sources, including oral histories, to paint an in-depth picture of an often forgotten labor force. The book is composed of three stories about Mexican laborers in the Northwest. First, Sifuentez explores the history of braceros in the Pacific Northwest during and immediately...

... career belies this thesis. His “American period” actually included a return to classical themes, exemplified in his large oil painting on the entombment of Christ. For a fuller portrait of the relationship between Arnautoff’s art and his politics, Cherny might have deconstructed his subject’s alleged...

.... It is in the insightful and nuanced readings of the sources, particularly the ample visual material, that this book really shines. The author evinces a particular talent for pairing Russian and American cultural artifacts in illuminating ways—witness, for instance, the juxtaposition of paintings by Nikolai Nevrev...

... in paint and trace work in animation were often called “hens,” “hags,” or “nuns,” while their work was described as “tedious and detailed work . . . best suited for women” (132). Jill Clark, who worked as a painter in the late 1940s, said that her work was “quite complicated really” as she had to work...

... of beauty culture. Barbara Melosh’s examination of gendered representations in New Deal public art and theater and Ellen Wiley Todd’s study of urban realist painting in interwar New York City confi rm this as well. But the robust, even muscular artistic renderings of 1930s women...

... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...

... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...

... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...

... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...

... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...

... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...

... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...

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... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...

... Book Reviews 99 Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, xxi + pp., (paper) Not until the Russian Revolution did American artists apply the social realist maxim that “oil...