Labor history... and pretty pictures too

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

I was browsing for materials for an upcoming conference that a friend and I are organizing, and came upon the online holdings of the British Trades Union Congress. The highlight of the site is the timeline, which has an abundance of etchings, flyers and photographs dating back to 1815. Some examples after the jump.

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General Association (1830s) Anti-union cartoon


Copenhagen Fields Demonstration (1834) Demonstration against the sentences imposed on the Tolpuddle Martyrs


Reform demonstration in London (1867) For an extension of the franchise to working men