Flag shop, Navy Yard 1917.
Bain News Service.
1 photographic print. | Photograph shows busy flag shop with women sitting at sewing machines making flags.
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https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647876/
That Woman in Black
Stories of older immigrant women in Moreland (now Merri-Bek)
Collected and edited by Georgia Flaskas
Photographs by Catherine Acin
Nicholson Street Community House (1998)
Miss Liberty 🇺🇸
Oil on Canvas, Norman Rockwell, 1943
A Saturday Evening Post cover created to represent women of the 1940s who went to work during the war, taking over male-oriented jobs while the men fought overseas
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Budapest, 1958. Women workers at the Vegetable Oil and Soap factory.
Source: Fortepan [197599] / János Keveházi
Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers, gathered over two years in a Guardian investigation
Woman-run farms have exploded over the past decade, growing in number by 23% since 2012. That’s reshaping the face of American agriculture, with women focusing more on community-based practices.
Read our report by Rachel Sarah in partnership with The Guardian US: https://fullerproject.org/story/growing-number-of-women-farmers-changing-the-face-of-californias-agricultural-industry/
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“Jeremy Hunt inflicts misery on women. Higher income tax and NIC by stealth hurts low-paid, mostly women. Majority of public sector workers are female -real wage cuts hurt women Triple-lock restoration does not compensate for last year's freeze - women lose out. Why pick on women?”
Mathrubhumi English
LoC Appreciation Society
Peter Riley
Sim Barr
Juan A. Zamarripa [E.]
Paul H 
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Steve Dustcircle 🌹
The Fuller Project
Liz Middleton