The Way We Worked: Photographs From the National Archives March 28, 2009

This exhibit reveals the effects of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, labor unrest, wars, and economic depression on ordinary working Americans. Spanning the years 1857-1987, the exhibition's black and white images also reflect a workforce shaped by immigration and ethnicity, slavery and racial segregation, wage labor and technology, gender roles and class, as well as by the American ideals of freedom and equality.