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

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
Pages: 51-62
Publication date: 1986
Language: English

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40968110

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Photographs Industrial archaeology Individualism Technology and art Skilled labor Labor unions Capitalism Migration 20th century United States

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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