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Yinzerman1992 OP t1_iu8ur0y wrote

If Lewis hine sounds familiar he was the sociologist who took pictures detailing labor conditions in the early 20th century, and was instrumental in changing child labor laws in america.

Photograph provided by Carnegie archives

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SWPenn t1_iuacg88 wrote

I believe this photo is part of The Pittsburgh Survey from 1907, "Homestead: The Households of a Milltown" by Margaret Byington. The laborers worked 12-hour days for two weeks, then on Sunday at the end of the two weeks worked 24 hours to switch them to the next shift, which they did for the next two weeks, and over and over. No unions then. Well, there was a union, but it was crushed in 1892 and wouldn't form again until the late 1930s.

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SWPenn t1_iuaczln wrote

The boarding house was likely in "the ward," which was the neighborhood below the tracks. Most immigrants, mostly single men, lived there. The ward was torn down and 8,000 people displaced beginning in 1941 when US Steel expanded the mill to meet wartime production goals. If you go to a movie or shop at the Waterfront, you're in the ward.

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WinterWontStopComing t1_iuao0b8 wrote

No doubt. Like consuming milk preserved with embalming chemicals, drinking soft drinks filled with your choice of cocaine or lithium if they could afford it, being a pack a day smoker by ten and working in the mines by your tweenage years

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Mbhawks10 t1_iubrsn5 wrote

I’m Soviet Russia steel forge you

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arduousardor t1_iuc60n5 wrote

Holy crap. That is Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.

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