Delving into the economic and labor history of the sugar industry, the sculpture drew on matters of race, gender, power and subjugation, standard themes of Walker's practice that are familiar to her blue - chip art world audience, but not so readily understood by the general public. (culturetype.com)
The inaugural exhibition, Women's Work / Men's Work: Labor and Gender in America, was organized with Professor Alex Lichenstein, Department of History, FIU, who will teach a course on twentieth - century U.S. labor history in the Spring semester of 2010. (thefrost.fiu.edu)
After twelve years of tough negotiations, the BSCP won a collective bargaining agreement with the Pullman company, a major milestone in U.S. labor history. (bookbrowse.com)