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Virtual museum exhibiting and cataloging the art of the labor movement and working people. Collections include parades, cartoon art on labor themes, and buttons and badges.
http://www.laborarts.org/

Includes several articles on labor conditions in the 19th century.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu...onian/issues02/may02/object.html

Long thought to have been inspired by the 1912 strike by textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, James Oppenheim's poem was actually inspired by earlier labor struggles.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labo...ory/bread_and_roses_history.html