There's One on Your Shoulder

Rat hunter, Paris, 1910.  Photographer, Roger Violett.

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Maintaing the sewers in London.  Date and photographer unknown.

Roadwork Ahead

Working on Route 40, Ohio, 1935.  Photographer unknown.

The Pit Brow Girls

Girls and women working a coal production line in the U.K., exact location unknown.  Commonly referred to as "pit brow girls."  Circa 1912, photographer unknown.

For Those Who Labor on this Day

A migrant farm worker in Belcross, NC, 1940, takes a short break.  Photo by Jack Delano.

After the Gold Rush

Dawson City, Yukon (present day Nome, Alaska), circa 1890.  Photographer unknown.

Street Sweeping

Street sweeper takes a break.  London, East End, 1965.  Photo by Steve Lewis.

Florence, Italy, circa 1940. A trucker stops to refuel. Photo by Alberto Lattuada.

Before Rosie

Long before America's Rosie the Riveter represented women in the workplace during war, the French were already in the game.  Women like these worked in munitions factories from 1914 through 1918 to support the war effort while troops fought under the hellish conditions of trench warfare at the front.  Photo by Roger Viollet, 1914. 

Scraping the Sky

Steel beam workers in New York City, 1925.  Photographer unknown.