Article ID: CBB041164844

The Individual vs. the Collective: Images of the American Worker in the 1920s (1986)

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In the visual arts, American labor imagery of the 1920s reflected, for the most part, an open acceptance of industrial capitalism and the new role of the worker within this economic system. A minority of artists, however, offered an alternative view of the American worker through which they advocated an economic system based on collective effort rather than individual achievement.

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Article Helena E. Wright (1986) The Image Makers: The Role of the Graphic Arts in Industrialization. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 5-18). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Betsy Fahlman
Gordon, Robert B.
Jackson, Robert W.
Taillon, Paul Michel
Wright, Helena
Sam R. Sweitz
Journals
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Publishers
University of Illinois Press
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Concepts
Industrial archaeology
Photographs
Technology and art
Skilled labor
Artists
Railroads
People
Benton, Thomas Hart
Curry, John Steuart
Wood, Grant
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
17th century
18th century
Places
United States
Illinois (U.S.)
Canada
Sweden
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Iowa (U.S.)
Institutions
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
Bethlehem Steel Company
Haeger Potteries
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