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A coal miner waits for access to the communal shower after his shift. Gelsenkirchen, West Germany, 1958

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Hand-colored photo of a vegetable peddler, Japan, 1896

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Metalworkers hammering out pots, India, ~1870

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Rug merchants in Cairo, Egypt, 1870s

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Fishers, UK, ~1889

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Painter Jan Styka at work on a panorama, Wrocław, German Empire (now Poland)

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Workers at rest, London, UK, 1877

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Ainu woman gathering seaweed, ~1890s

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Servant or slave woman in Mogadishu, Somalia, 1882

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Gold miners in Canada, 1853

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People along the Nile River, Egypt, ~1900?

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Milking an animal in Mongolia, 1920s

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"Lesbian Welders, San Francisco", USA, 20th century

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Indigenous Wishram man fishing, West Coast USA, ~1910

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Men resting together at midday, China, 1920s

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Farmers during the harvest, Suffolk, UK, ~1885

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Removing rubble in the aftermath of WW2, Warsaw, Poland, 1945

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Winter fishing in Fonyod, Hungary, ~1910

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Shepherd with a rifle, Corsica, France, ~1890

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Milk-cart pulled by dogs, Belgium, ~1880

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Salmon fishers in Washington State, USA, ~1920

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Shepherd boys near Firuzkuh, Iran, 1935

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Women harvesting hay, Bulgaria, ~1940

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Bell ringer in East Jerusalem, Palestine, ~1950

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Street industry in Qing-Dynasty China, ~1898

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Dog plow in Belgium, WW1, 1916

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Factory workers in Whitby, the UK, ~1920

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Field irrigation, South Korea, ~1950

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Copper working in Baghdad, Iraq, 1932

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Firetruck being observed by a crowd, Yokohama, Japan, 1907

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Shepherds with their flock, Normandy, France, ~1920

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Salt miners at work, Poland, 1922

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Miners washing gold-bearing sand, Russian Empire, ~1910

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Construction workers near Stockholm, Sweden, 1937

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Doing laundry in São Tomé and Príncipe, ~1941

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Crossing a river by automobile, Mosul, Iraq, 1935

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Woman washing clothing in the Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq, ~1934

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Rickshaw in operation, Harbin, China, 1945

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Two women carrying a wooden beam during construction of a chalet, Switzerland, 1936

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Nannies watching over small children in Berlin, Germany, 1913

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Rowboat filled with baskets, Tangier, Morocco, 1935

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Boats on the Nile, Egypt, early 20th century

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5-year old child worker in the shrimp industry, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA, ~1910

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Milking training, Canada, 1927

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Syrian pastry cook, possibly in New York City, USA, 1916

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Orchard crew in the Pacific Northwest, USA or Canada, early 1900s

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Mistletoe vendors in Paris, France, ~1928

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Church being used for grain storage, the Soviet Union,, 1930

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Processing salted fish, Iceland, ~1910-1920

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Chinese farm laborers in Peru, ~1900

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Breakfast tea being passed between train cars, Pakistan, 1983

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Shepherd with his kids in Azerbaijan, 1980s?

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Locksmith in Seoul, South Korea, 1956

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Young boy raising a hammer during a solidarity rally for a coal miners' strike in Zonguldak, Turkiye, 1990

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Member of the Women's Forestry Corps, UK, WW1, between 1915-1918

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Empanada vendor in Tucumán, Argentina, ~1890

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Cabbage harvest in China, 1920s

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Women working at a factory for prosthetic limbs, Italy, WW1, presumably between 1915-1918

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Subway riders without newspapers after a strike by newspaper workers, New York City, USA, 1953

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Graphite mine in French-occupied Vietnam, 1929

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Prisoners being transported to work, Irkutsk, the Soviet Union, 1989

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Workers taking a ride behind a tractor, Saudi Arabia, 1940s

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The continuing war of the Dutch against the land itself; workers stabilizing marshland near Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1930s

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Ironing room of a clothing factory, Baja, Hungary, 1958

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Finished Bren gun by Veronica Foster, one of many women working in war industry during WW2, Canada, 1941

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Goldsmith at work, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1928

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Christopher Walken and his brother working dough at their father's bakery, Astoria, New York, USA, 1950s

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Women gathering water in Laos, 1929

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Laundry in India, 1970

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Woman harvesting coffee with a baby on her back, Kenya, British Empire, 1936

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Woman operating a welding machine (considered a "man's job"), Philadelphia, USA, WW1, 1918

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Kenaf plants being processed in a field, Java, Indonesia, 1927

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Knife grinders (and dogs), France, ~1900

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More knife grinders (and dog), France, ~1900

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Switchboard operators, USA, 1920s

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Professional rat catchers after an outbreak of plague in Sydney, Australia

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"Lector" (public reader for workers' entertainment) in a cigar factory, Cuba, ~1900

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Female mason in Berlin, Germany, ~1900

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Labor rights protesters preparing rocks for the police, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1932

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Coal miners stuffed in a tiny elevator after a day's work, Belgium, 1920s

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Paterson Strike Pageant parade, New York City, USA, 1913

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