Buttons, Badges & Ribbons
Proclaiming membership or voicing opinion, buttons can make an impression.

Cartoon Art
Cartoon art on labor issues, often with satiric humor.

Leaflets & Pamphlets
Graphic arts and stirring words in skilled combination.

Murals
Wall paintings that memorialize dramatic events in the history of working people.

Photographs
See the section on Photography.

Song Books & Sheet Music
The best known and most widely practiced art form of the labor movement.

Civil Rights
Images from the 1920s through the 1990s about the efforts to win fair treatment for black citizens.

Parades and Demonstrations
Workers take to the streets to tell their story.

Strikes
Labor's weapon of last resort.

Union Square
A national historic landmark where workers exercised their rights to free speech and assembly.

Workers at Work
Images of people actually on the job.

Labor Defender 
Covers from the monthly publication of the International Labor Defense.

Pre-1920s
Labor Arts objects from the early part of the century.

1920s
The Roaring Twenties:  Boom and Bust!

1930s
A New Deal for labor and the nation.

1940s - 1950s
Labor in the hot and cold wars.

1960s - 1970s
 The Civil and Women's Rights Era.

1980s - 1990s
 On the brink of the new millennium.