A country's labor force can be one of its greatest attributes. As a united front, it can also come together to force the hand of governments on policy and wages. As we stand on the frontier of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, when the careers of our children today may not even exist, we take a look back at the employment conditions and movements of our forefathers.
A lone hotel barber, a member of the AFL-CIO, carries a sign objecting to scab employees as he strikes outside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City during the 1940s. A uniformed doorman speaks to a woman in the background. (Corry/Getty Images)
On Feb. 3, 1975, a group of Playboy bunny girls pickets outside a meeting of Playboy Club employees who are voting on whether to join the Transport and General Workers' Union. (Keystone/Getty Images)
An official of the pecan workers' union holds relief supplies of butter and beans, which are supposed to feed a family of three for two weeks. (RUSSELL LEE/Getty Images)
Four-year-old Mary shucks two pots of oysters a day in March 1911. (The New York Public Library)
An anemic little spinner stands in a New England cotton mill in August 1910. (The New York Public Library)
Suffragettes carry the banner of the Women's Trade Union League of New York on a Labor Day Parade through the city in 1913. (PAUL THOMPSON/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Police clash violently with demonstrators in the 1920s. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A group of striking union miners poses outdoors in the Lick Creek District of West Virginia on April 12, 1922. A woman holds an American flag. (A. E. FRENCH/Getty Images)
Members of the American Trade Unions sit in discussion, circa 1930.
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