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Karl Marx Hof.
Vienna, Austria

Karl Marx-Hof

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.
Notre Dame du Travail Church.
Paris, France

Notre Dame du Travail Church

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.
The 1970s.
Toronto, Ontario

Simcoe Park 'Worker's Monument'

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.
The cover of 'Journey for Justice.'
food

The Forgotten Filipino American Activist Behind the Delano Grape Strike

A children's book about Larry Itliong aims to rectify history.
Paula Mejia May 17, 2018
Labor Temple
Seattle, Washington

Seattle Labor Temple

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.
Kreenholm Masters' House.
Narva, Estonia

Kreenholm Manufacturing Company

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.
Forest Park, Illinois

Haymarket Martyrs Monument

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.
From left to right: Edward Gibson, Gerald Carr, and William Pogue prepare to fly to Cape Canaveral to take off for Skylab.
space exploration

Did 3 NASA Astronauts Really Hold a 'Space Strike' in 1973?

Digging into a legendary moment in the history of extraterrestrial labor.
Cara Giaimo August 28, 2017
One of the burials found at the pyramid.
pyramids

Found: The Remains of Chinese Laborers Interred on a Peruvian Pyramid

In the 19th century, 100,000 indentured laborers came to Peru from China.
Sarah Laskow August 25, 2017
The salt farms of Thailand.
Mae Klong, Thailand

Samut Songkhram Salt Farms

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."
The Irish workers in this famous "Spaghetti Junction" photo have finally been identified.
mystery

The Irish Workers in This Famous Photograph Have Finally Been Identified

Just in time for St. Patrick's day.
Cara Giaimo March 17, 2017
A 19th century tintype of two "Lowell Mill Girls."
kickass women

Sarah Bagley, the Voice of America's Early Women's Labor Movement

In the 1830s and '40s—before they could even vote—women mill workers agitated for equal treatment.
Cara Giaimo March 8, 2017
Hammering Man close-up
Seattle, Washington

Hammering Man

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.
In Ghana, potholes can inspire some pretty good jokes.
roads

Taxi Drivers In Ghana Skip Work To Fill In Potholes

Enough was enough.
Cara Giaimo July 27, 2016
Murals of Maxo Vanka
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Murals of Maxo Vanka

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.
features

Inside the Bizarre, Racist Scheme to Import Siberian Workers to Hawaii in 1909

The laborers were to work in sugarcane fields, and also render the islands less Asian.
Alina Simone May 2, 2016