Solly Mack
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Thu Aug-31-06 03:35 PM
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Political Cartoons (Prints) - Labor in America 1863-1908 (dial-up warning) |
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Edited on Thu Aug-31-06 03:36 PM by Solly Mack
Thought this interesting and worth sharing. Small sampling below. Link at bottom to more prints. The more (some) things change... More Prints Here: 19th & Early 20th Century Labor Prints, 1863-1908
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Thu Aug-31-06 03:46 PM
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1. Thanks for posting those Solly |
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Its interesting to see where we have come from in just a hundred or so years and what was going on then.
Child labor was a state by state deal....I didn't know that. Kind of like slavery, I suppose.
And how prohibitionists, the capital class and labor joined forces...interesting alliances, like today's neo-cons and fundamentalists joining forces with Likudnicks to 're-make the Middle East.
The more things change, I guess.......
The art work involved is also pretty amazing. These things weren't just sketched out in an hour or two.
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Solly Mack
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Thu Aug-31-06 03:51 PM
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2. You're welcome, Jacobin! |
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It really is interesting to see the nation's history - and not so history - told in political cartoons from years ago.
I love the artwork!
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Thu Aug-31-06 03:57 PM
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Everything old is new again.
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:07 PM
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4. I can't decide if I'm reassured or saddened by it |
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"Everything old is new again"
Reassured because the much talked about pendulum does swing...or saddened because things don't really change, they just go out of fashion for a while.
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:12 PM
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5. You might like this one also |
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:14 PM
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6. I do!! Thank you, IChing!!!! |
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:14 PM
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it's sad to see how far support for organized labor has fallen in the U.S.
maybe it is time for me to find a new country
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Solly Mack
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:19 PM
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8. Once overheard two co-workers talking |
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One told the other "It's the rich people that allow us to work because they create jobs" The other agreed
Ever been so blown away by a comment you go mute? The sheer stupidity of the statement just shuts your brain down?
That's what happened to me
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:23 PM
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reading about the organized pro-corporate campaign that is trying to pin every problem in Detroit's auto industry on the UAW/CAW...somewhere in time it became a crime for assembly line workers to make a proper wage and have a health plan
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Solly Mack
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:25 PM
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10. Yes. How dare workers demand dignity |
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and it is dignity - to be valued for what you do and not just seen as something to be discarded with the day's trash.
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Thu Aug-31-06 06:05 PM
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Thu Aug-31-06 06:08 PM
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12. The Abraham Lincoln Library in Springfield IL has a great collection |
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Edited on Thu Aug-31-06 06:08 PM by Beelzebud
of old political cartoons from Lincolns period.
If you thought politics only started being nasty in our lifetimes, you have another thing coming. Some of the older ones were very over the top.
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Thu Aug-31-06 06:16 PM
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13. Political campaigning and politics have always been ugly, yes |
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Edited on Thu Aug-31-06 06:22 PM by Solly Mack
the labor cartoons reflect the same sorts of arguments continuing today...in fact, with a a single word change, some of the cartoons from over a hundred years ago could be used today
a sign of just how far we haven't come...
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