Labor Art
Labor
Arts
http://www.laborarts.org
Labor Arts is a virtual museum. Images of working people from posters,
paintings, banners, buttons, songs and other resources are the focus of
this website.The Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection,
Library
of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/goldstein/
This is an online exhibition from the Library of Congress. It presents
a collection of images of people at work, with special emphasis on the
art of the 1930s.
Labor
Art Exhibits, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley
http://www.iir.berkeley.edu/exhibit/
This site features a permanent exhibition of poster art and regularly
adds new online exhibitions on the subject of labor. Photography exhibitions
are a special focus.
David
Bacon, Labor Photographer and Journalist
http://dbacon.igc.org/
This is the homepage for David Bacon who consulted on Our Work
Life and wrote the essay accessible at the Resources
link.
Labor
and Working Class History Association
http://www.lawcha.org/arts.php?type=visualarts
This site offers a long list of links to labor art sites.
Labor History
Labor
Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University
http://www.library.sfsu.edu/special/larc.html
Learn more about the collections of the Labor Archives (Our Work
Life collaborator) at this site.
California
Labor History
http://calpedia.sfsu.edu/calabor
This site “enables users to explore, by location, date, or text
search, over 1200 key events in the state’s labor history that have
affected the lives of working people. Detailed short essays describe the
larger historical context surrounding many of these events.”
California
Federation of Teachers’ Labor Resource Guide for
K-12
http://www.cft.org/about/comm/labor/RG02.pdf
You can find lists of books on labor for ages 5-17 on this site. It includes
titles of videos and other resources.
Labor
History Web Links
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/labor/index.htm
An easy to use list of web links on U.S. labor history well organized
by subject.
Labor History Events
Labor
Fest
http://www.laborfest.net
Labor Fest is a celebration of labor culture and takes place in San Francisco
each year during July. A month-long schedule of events features, films,
lectures, exhibitions and other events.
Western
Workers Labor Heritage Festival
http://lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/WWLHF/WWLHF04.html
The longest-running labor festival outside of Washington, DC. It takes
place each year in the San Francisco Bay Area on the third weekend in
January,
in
honor
of Martin
Luther King’s
birthday.
Transit
Art
Art
in Transit, Making it Happen
http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/program/art/index.html
A report written by Wendy Feuer, who established the Metro Transit art
program in New York City. The report describes transit art projects across
the U.S and is illustrated with thumbnail photographs.
Metro
Transit, New York City
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mta/aft/
New York City was one of the first cities to feature art and poetry on
their subway system. You can view many of their projects on this website.
King
County, Washington: Poetry on the Buses
http://transit.metrokc.gov/prog/poetry/poetry.html
Seattle, Washington’s transit system has an active cultural program.
On this site you can read about their poetry on the bus project.
Guide
to Public Art on the Los Angeles, California Metro System
http://www.metro.net/about_us/metroart/default.htm
The L.A. transit system features metro stations designed by artists.
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