Made in the USA: The Evolution of American Labor ... Part 1

Eight year old Emma Kelly picks shrimp from 3:am until 4 p:m in Bay St. Louis , Mississippi in 1911.

A steel worker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fernance Silvia, a 7 year old newsie, would sell papers until 8 p.m. some nights.

New Bedford, August 22, 1911.
The Great Western Sugar Company in Greeley, Colorado

Children waiting to be smuggled in Winchendon, Massachusetts in 1911.

A worker in an Illinois Steel Mill

Rosie the Riveter became an integral part of the advancement of women in the workplace as well as the economic boom during WWII

Children going to work at the Chesapeake Knitting Mills in Berkley, VA on June 15, 1911.

With so many working aged men fighting in WWII, women, who had long been denied rights in the workplace, received the opportunity to assist the war effort and change attitudes in American workplaces.

Women working on Fighter Planes

Georgia turpentine Workers in 1937

Five-year-old picks shrimp in 1911.

Georgia turpentine worker skins bark from a tree, 1937.