By These Hands: Portraits from the Factory Floor

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These starkly beautiful photographs document the day-to-day life and labor of blue-collar workers in up to date The us. From a foundry by which the very fires of hell seem to blast to an air-conditioned computer keep an eye on room by which the workers appear casual and comfortable, David Parker’s lens captures what Peter Rachleff calls “a performance, a ritual, an exercise centuries ol””&#8212men and women at work on factory floors. These photographs, taken in twenty plants in all parts of Minnesota, explore the common bonds of industrial labor. Whether it is the Ford plant in St. Paul, the Potlatch paper mill in Cloquet, or the Toro engine manufacturer in Windom, Parker seeks to honor “the collective genius of the American worker.”

Excerpts from interviews with the workers reveal their opinions on such diverse topics as health care and child care, union activity, immigrant labor, and the effects of globalization. Their words and these photographs document industrial laborers and the factories by which they work, revealing how workers interact with each and every other and their environment and how the culture of labor is reflected in the jobs men and women do. An appendix provides a history and description of each and every administrative center, detailing the magnitude of production and the constant ingenuity required to manufacture even the commonest products. This book is a tribute to the men and women who process the foods we eat, manufacture the cars we drive, and produce the goods that make our lives comfortable.

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