Labourers Collection (page 3)

Cottages for Workers
Design and plan for a pair of model cottages for labourers Date: 1857

Labourers Cottages / Plan
Elevation and plans of two labourers cottages Date: 1857

Joseph Arch
JOSEPH ARCH (1826 - 1919) Agricultural reformer; founder of the National Agricultural Labourers Union. 1886

Chinese Labour Corps leaving for China after WW1
Yi-Loo-Ping-An (Good-bye and peaceful travel): the Rev. J. Webster O. C. Chinese Section, British Y.M.C.A. saying farewell to each man of the Chinese Labour Corps as they departed back for China

Back to the Land, cartoon by H. M. Bateman, 1918, WW1
" The 5.15 from town, with its cargo of allotmenteers, approaching its destination and the scene of their labourers." Date: 1918

Cartoon, Consequences of a Successful French Invasion, Me teach de English Republicans to work. Scene, A Ploughed Field. By James Gillray. Date: 1798

People harvesting in a field, with a steam tractor and a cart. Date: circa 1920s

Man with a harvesting machine in a field
Man with a horse-drawn harvesting machine in a field. Date: circa 1920s

Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s

Four people with a tractor in a field, transporting hay. Date: circa 1920s

Haymaking in a field
People haymaking in a field. Date: circa 1920s

Coolies (Indentured Labourers) Carrying Stone, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Date: 1911

Men on New Stoughton Wagon, Iowa, USA
Two men on a New Stoughton Wagon with spades in their hands. Photograph by Charles Clinton Stevens of Williams, Iowa, USA. The covering on the horse is probably designed to protect it from flies

Sunday Work in the Tunnel of a Great Main Line, Matania
Labour and railway efficiency: Renewing the Permanent Way of a Great Main Line. Sunday work in the tunnel of a great main line outside London - gangs of navvies relaying the permanent way. Date: 1914

Farm scene near Mineral Wells, Texas, USA
Farm scene with horses and threshing machine near Mineral Wells, Texas, USA. circa 1910

War work for the elderly, WW1
An old farm labourer in Essex returns to the plough to help in the war effort during the First World War. The gentleman pictured was nearly eighty years of age and had several sons in the Army

Jat Zemindars, India
Group photo of four Jat Zemindars, India. The Jat people are traditionally a non-elite group who worked on the land. Zemindars are small local landholders. Date: circa 1890s

Portrait photograph of three French chimney sweeps

Railway workers stop for a group photograph

Algiers, Algeria - Harvesting by Mechanical & handheld means Date: 1910

Chinese Countrymen - possibly agricultural workers? Date: circa 1920s

Chinese Mining Boy, South Africa
A Chinese Mining Boy, South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Chinese Mining Boys - South Africa
Three Chinese Mining Boys. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Chinese Musicians - one playing an Erhu - South Africa
Chinese Musicians - one pictured playing an Erhu - in South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

China - Shanghai - Heavy cart pulled by a human team
China - Shanghai - Heavy street cart (laden with wooden crates) pulled by a human team. Date: circa 1930

Zhenjiang, China - Labourer pull cart of rocks - street Date: 1920

Police in Chinese Compound, South Africa - contracted miners
Police in a Chinese Compound, South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

The New Compensation Act of 1906
" The New Compensation Act" - " Never mind Bill, we re insured!" - a pair of labourers are not unduly concerned at the blocks of stone falling on their heads

A group of Jolly Good Fellahs - Syria
A group of Syrian Fellahs, Aleppo, Syria. The word Fellah is used to denote a peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer in the Middle East and North Africa

French Coutryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers / Harvesters
French Countryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers/Harvesters Date: circa 1905

Swiss agricultrual workers take a break from haymaking and scything and share a swift tipple. Date: circa 1910s

Irish Mick would have loved his Elegant Funeral
" Shure, poor Mick had an illigant funeral; it would have been a proud day for him if he d lived to see it." !!! Date: 1892

Strawberry Farm - British Columbia - Canada Date: circa 1910s

Bermuda - Packing Onions
Packing onions into wooden crayes ready for international export - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Three Natives of Nassau - Bahamas. Date: circa 1910s

Labourers Cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Tolpuddle, Dorset, England. In this cottage in 1834, six agricultural labourers held trade union meetings over poor pay, which led them being transported to Australia. Date: 1834

Tartar labourers. Group of Tatars at work repairing roadway in Balaklava; wooden hut, Store 14th Regiment, in the background. Date 1855. Tartar labourers

Exterior of Whitechapel Workhouse, 1855
Frozen out dock labourers wait to receive bread from Whitechapel Workhouse, 1855. Dock workers and owners of waterside premises faced starvation in the face of frost on the Thames

Israel - Labourers in the Jezreel Valley
The Jezreel Valley, Israel, previously known as the Plain of Esdraelon, the Zirin Valley and the Meadow of Amers son Date: circa 1908

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

Chinese labourers filling sandbags near Arras, France, WW1
Chinese labourers filling sandbags near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 13 June 1918

Preparations for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, 1852
The Nelson Monument in St Pauls cathedral, as preparations for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington get under way. Date: 1852

Chinese labourers at Boulogne, France, WW1
A parade of Chinese labourers at Boulogne, northern France, during the First World War. Date: August 1917

Chile - Agricultural Labourers Camp
The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910

M CORMICKs REAPER
MCCORMICKs REAPER McCormicks patent American horsedrawn reaper being used by two farm labourers. Date: 1850s

Robots as the farm workers of the future
Robots depicted as the farm workers of the future. Date: 1896

1872 / Farm Worker Meeting
During the period of agricultural unrest, farm labourers meet at the Eleanor Cross in Geddington, Northamptonshire Date: 1872

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