Workers Collection (page 7)

Woman inspecting peas in Birds Eye factory
Woman inspecting peas in a Birds Eye factory before they are quick-frozen. Date: circa 1970s

Karl Marx at IWMA meeting, London
Reproduction of a painting by O.G. Verejski entitled Marx at the IWMA Meeting. Karl Marx was attending, but not speaking at, a meeting of the IWMA (International Working Men's Association)

Employment protest, Liverpool
Employment protest in Liverpool, 17 March 1979. Those taking part include Dunlop workers, Tate & Lyle workers, and members of the National Union of Seamen. Date: 1979

British Leyland workers protesting, London
British Leyland workers protesting during a strike, and taking part in a demonstration in London which included a march to the House of Commons

Building workers dispute, Lambeth, South London, 19 July 1977. Date: 1977

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GEC workers campaigning, GEC Headquarters, London
GEC workers campaigning outside the GEC Headquarters in London during a lockout from the Keith Blackman works at Tottenham, 18 March 1970. Date: 1970

NALGO union members campaigning with placards
NALGO (National and Local Government Officers Association) union members, gas office and fitting staff, campaigning with placards outside the headquarters of the North Thames gas board, 14 July 1981

Babcock and Wilcox workers, Renfrew plant, Scotland
Babcock and Wilcox workers at the Renfrew plant, Scotland, during a mass meeting as part of an employment dispute. Date: circa 1970

Members of NUTGW campaigning
Members of NUTGW (National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers), NATSOPA (National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants)

Spanish Civil War Poster - Peasant
Poster from the Spanish General Workers Union (UGT) appealing to country workers: Peasants! The revolution is as necessary as the shoots on the vine. Date: circa 1938

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Women Curlers 1907
The last treatment was having its locks curled. Using a blunt knife the women workers curl the plumes some reaching the length of about ten feet

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Joining feathers 1907
Edwardian women sitting along a table, using a sharp knife they cut and trim the quill thin and flat, so the colourful feathers can be glued together. Date: 1907

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Changing Hue 1907
The feathers were taken out of bleaching and dyed to show their new appearance. The white ones are bewildering in their snowy whiteness and the coloured have quite forgotten their former dinginess

Spanish Civil War. Bank workers syndicate in UGT (Spanish General Union of Workers). Author: Ortega. Valencia. Drawing. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

Spanish Civil War. Poster from CNT-AIT (National)
Spanish Civil War. Poster from CNT-AIT (National Confederation of Labour, member of IWA (the International Workers Association, AIT in Spanish)

Spanish Civil War. Tres elementos necesarios para crear una nueva Espana (Three required elements to set up a new Spain). Poster from Sindicato de Agentes del Comercio y de la Industria

Spanish Civil War. Allisteu-vos a les milicies antifeixistes (Join the Antifascist Militia). Propaganda poster from the Republican side. UGT (Spanish General Union of Workers). Author: Oliva Perotes

Spanish Civil War. Front Popular!: Front de victoria i de llibertat! (Popular Front!: Front of victory and freedom!). Propaganda poster from the Republican side

Spanish Civil War. Socors roig - Ajudeu-lo!
Spanish Civil War.Socors roig - Ajudeu-lo! (Red Aid: Help!). Republican poster from POUM or Partit Obrer d'Unificacio Marxista (Workers Party of Marxist Unification). SPAIN. Barcelona

Spain. Civil War (1936-1939). Poster Ventajas de la colectivizacion. Campesinos: colectivizad la tierra! (Advantages of Collectivization)

Spain. Civil War. Obrers, camperols, soldats, intel.lectuals. Reforceu els rengles del Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya (Workers, farmes, soldiers, intellectuals)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Poster by Carles Fontsere for the Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). Upper detail

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Workers of All Countries, Unite. Republican poster

Guerra Civil Espanola (1936-1939). Trabajadores!! Leed Solidaridad Obrera. Diario de la Revolucion (Workers!! Read Workers Solidarity. Journal of the Revolution). Anarchist poster by E. Vicente

Trico March 1976
A march in support of the striking workers at the Trico-Folberth windscreen wipers factory, Brentford. The women workers at the factory were on strike demanding equal pay with their male colleagues

Trico strikers 1976
Strikers barrack a car as it crosses the picket line at the Trico-Folberth windscreen wipers factory, Brentford, Middlesex, England

Combined Civil Defence exercise, WW2
Civil defence rescue workers administering first aid to a released casualty from the exercise site. The R on the helmet signifies Rescue team workers

Group of Red Army soldiers
A group of Red Army soldiers, some sitting on a wooden cart, crowd around to catch up on news during the Civil War. Date: 1918

Collection for South African rail strike
Two men brandish collection buckets for the South African rail strike to support Rail Against Apartheid. Signs show that the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR)

Lofthouse Colliery rescue workers
Grim faced mines rescue men on their to go down the pit at the Lofthouse Colliery, West Yorkshire. On the 21st March, miners were working at a coal face unaware that nearby were some flooded 19th

Montague Colliery rescue workers
At the Montague Colliery, Scotswood, near Newcastle on Tyne, members of the rescue brigade check their apparatus before descending the flooded mine

The Battle of Saltley Gate
At Saltley Coke Depot, Birmingham, police struggle to hold back pickets who had gathered to force the closure of the Depot

Advertisement for Miners
An advertisement placed in a local newspaper by the National Union of Mineworkers, Derbyshire area, seeking miners for underground work. Date: December 1973

Kinneil Mineworkers protest
Workers protest against the proposed closure of Kinneil Pit, Bo'ness, Scotland. Their efforts were in vain as the colliery was closed in 1983 Date: December 1982

T. U. C. demonstration in Swansea, Wales
A demonstration organised by the Welsh Trades Union Congress in Swansea, south Wales, including representatives of the Labour Party of Wales and the Labour Party Young Socialists Date: 19 July 1980

Various stages in order of making the palm oil and vegetable fats into a finely-scented eramic soap in Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Soap Works at Bank Quarry, Warrington, Cheshire. Date: 1907

Jo Richardson, Labour politician, with group at Dagenham
Josephine (Jo) Richardson (second from left) (1923-1994), Labour politician, MP for Barking and feminist, with a group of workers at Dagenham, in her own constituency. Date: 1979

Ben Rubner, General Secretary of the FTAT union
Ben Rubner (1921-1998), General Secretary of the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union (FTAT) from 1976 to 1986. He also campaigned against the Vietnam War

Ron Todd, General Secretary of the TGWU
Ron (Ronald) Todd (1927-2005), General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) from 1985 to 1992. Seen here (left) with a colleague at a conference

Keith Vaz and Bill Morris at a meeting
Keith Vaz (Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, b 1956), British Labour Party politician (left) and Bill Morris (William Manuel Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, b 1938), leader of the TGWU

David Warburton, trades unionist, at a conference
David Warburton (b 1942), British trades unionist with the GMWU (General and Municipal Workers Union), seen here at a conference reading a copy of the Morning Star newspaper. Date: circa 1970s

Karl Marx monument, Moscow, Russia
The Karl Marx monument in Teatralnaya Square, Moscow, Russia, around the time of its unveiling in 1961. It was carved on the spot from a 200 ton block of granite

Bill Morris, trade union leader, giving a speech
Bill Morris (William Manuel Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, b 1938), trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the TGWU (Transport and General Workers Union) 1992-2003

Leo McGree, communist and trades union activist
Leo McGree (1900-1967), member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and trades union activist Seen here taking part in a political rally

Paul Foot, British investigative journalist and campaigner
Paul Foot (Paul Mackintosh Foot, 1937-2004), British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)

Bob Crow, RMT trade union leader, with a banner
Bob Crow, British trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and a member of the General Council of the TUC

Bob Crow, RMT trade union leader, in Trafalgar Square
Bob Crow, British trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and a member of the General Council of the TUC

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