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Library of Congress

WPA workers from 26 states, head by David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, today protested to Assistant Administrator Aubrey Williams the recent cuts in relief. Their kicks were against the current wage scales, geographical wage differentials, inadequate number of WPA enrollees and the ‘unjust and unfair’ labor relations setup. Lasser is on the right and Aubrey Williams in center seated, 12/15/38

LC-USZC2-951

NYC: Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941]

Lawrence History Center, Lawrence, Massachusetts, and University of Massachusetts Lowell History Department and students

Standoff between militia and strikers, Lawrence, Mass. 1912. Prompted by a wage cut, the walkout spread quickly from mill to mill across the city. Strikers defied the assumptions of conservative trade unions within the American Federation of Labor that immigrant, largely female and ethnically diverse workers could not be organized. The Lawrence strike is referred to as the “Bread and Roses” strike and “The Strike for Three Loaves.”

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Glasgow Lock Hospital prior to demolition: 1950s

nutrias.org

This project is making an important contribution to public health and community welfare by providing professional and non-professional assistance to public hospitals and clinics thereby releasing the regular staff of time consuming tasks.

Burlington Free Press | B Meyers/Vermont Historical Society

Members of the Mount Philo commune traveled to Washington to protest the Vietnam War in 1971

History of Social Work

In 1985, the numerous small initiatives exploring these challenges and opportunities found each other and gained momentum. In the USA, Dick Schoech launched the first issue of the Computers in human services journal with the support of people like Walter LaMendola. This was an expansion of the already existing Computer Use in Social Services Network (CUSSN). The journal was later renamed to Journal of Technology in Human Services. Also in 1985 in the UK, Bryan Glastonbury published his Computers in social work. These people, together with e.g. Hein de Graaf (NL), Jackie Rafferty (UK), Rob MacFadden (Canada) and Jan Steyaert (NL & B) launched HUSITA (Human Service Information Technology Applications) and ENITH (European Network for Information Technology and Human Services) and organized a series of almost yearly global or European conferences. The American journal was complemented by the UK-bases Computer Applications in Social Work journal. It was later renamed New Technology in the Human Services and ceased to be published in 2003.

USDoL

The first “up from the ranks” labor woman to head an executive department of the Federal Government, Mary Anderson directed the Women’s Bureau for nearly 25 years, leading efforts to win better wages, hours and working condition for women. She served for five presidents and, during her tenure, saw the ranks of women workers more than double.

Source: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection / New York City — Welfare Island

U Warwick Library

Geraldine Aveseraldine Aves (1898-1986) was born into a socially committed family that had traditions of social inquiry on her father’s side and suffragist activism on her grandmother’s.

H Hibi | Japanese American National Museum

BBC | NARA

Avenger pilot Roland Gift relaxes in the USS Monterey after a night landing