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Steeplejack Harry Walker spending his honeymoon on a rush job, painting the chimney stack at Battersea Power station. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Pegging Boots By HandEngraving shows a shoemaker as he wears an apron, sits on a cobblers bench in his workshop, and pegs a boot by hand, mid to late 19th Century
Lumberjack in orange suit standing next to tree stump holding electric saw, felled tree falling down hillside
Gas StrikeBusinesses, pubs and theatres having to use candles and torches during the gas strike. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Getty Images)
Hands typing on a computer keyboard
Makeshift Milk Float30th September 1919: Londons milk supply is distributed during the railway strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Hop Pickers Demo16th May 1908: Overhead view of the large hop-pickers demonstration as they walk along the Embankment in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Mrs LuddA cartoon showing a luddite leader dressed as a woman. This is possibly a Tory caricature comparing the Luddites to the mobs in the French Revolution
Peoples Beehive1840: The British Beehive, a cartoon depicting the population as members of a behive with the Queen at the top and various other occupations in cells below her
Ulsters Unemployed17th December 1955: Unemployed people on the streets of Derry city. In Northern Ireland 30, 000 people are out of work. Original Publication
The Pullman Strikers HeadquartersExterior view of Ulhics Hall, the Pullman stikers headquarters in Chicago. The strike began when workers at George Pullmans railway car manufacturing company
Officers Stand Near A Railway Carriage During The Pullman StrikeA group of officers stand near a railway carriage in an emergency camp during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, July 1984. The strike began when workers at George Pullmans railroad car manufacturing
Blockade At Grand Crossing During The Pullman StrikeIllustration of strikers performing a blockade at the Grand Crossing, near the outskirts of Chicago, during the Pullman strike, July 26, 1894. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)
Dressmakers In A Department StoreIllustration of a group of women working in the dressmaking room of a department store, 19th Century. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)
Molly Maguire MenIllustration of a meeting of Molly Maguire men during a strike at a coal mine circa 1870. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)
19th Century BreweryEngraving shows the bustle of activity around the Bergner & Engels Brewery, Philadelphia, late 19th Century. Drivers whip horses as they deliver barrells of beer on carts
Halewood StandstillA car park, full to capacity, mainly with new Ford Anglias, at the Ford Motor Companys factory at Halewood, near Liverpool
Anti Strike DemoRepresentatives of regional groups from the Womens Guild of Empire marching along the Embankment, London to demonstrate against the imminent general strike in the UK, 17th April 1926
Signing For WorkMay 1926: Volunteers signing up to work during the General Strike of 1926, at the Foreign Office, London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
Shoeshine1877: A young independent shoeblack shines the boots of a city gent. Original Publication: From Street Life In London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith - pub
Future Commuterscirca 1890: Labourers clearing the ground for a railway line running beside a village of thatched huts in Kenya. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
Business man outside a bank building
Business man outside a bank
Business man greeting someone outside a bank
Installation of a solar collector, near Freiburg in Breisgau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
Doctor examining a patient
Installation of solar panels near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
Elderly gentleman lying in a hammock with a netbook
Rice harvest, Vietnam, Southeast Asia
Workers in a rice field, Mai Chau, a village where ethnic minorities live, Vietnam, Southeast Asia
Woman at a laptop
Small black female figurine in a screw clamp, symbolic image for being under pressure to perform
Black figure of a female in a clamp, pressure to perform
Three male figures and one female figure standing on different coloured columns of various heights
Cleaner in a stairwell of an office building, Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
Oxen cart and a farmhand working in a rice paddy, morning mood, Ngapali Beach, Thandwe, Myanmar
Steel cables, shackles, material to transport cargo, Neunfelder Maschinenfabrik, NMF, Hamburg, Germany
End of roadwork, sign, United Kingdom, Europe
Tools, hammer, clamps, Germany
A basket weaver sitting on the street and weaving a basket, Brittany, France, Europe
Ceramic artist working in her workshop, pulling a handle for a pitcher, Geisenhausen, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
Women carrying heavy loads on a path in the Atlas Mountains, in the mud-brick village of Anammer, Ourika Valley, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Morocco
Young woman checking paprika plants in a greenhouse, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Young woman harvesting green peppers in a greenhouse, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Young woman harvesting lettuce on a field, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Young woman harvesting lettuce on a field, Esslingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Home WorkChildren at work making willow plumes, circa 1900. 98% of this work is carried out by Italian-Americans. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)