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Industrial Work
1920 Night work for women. In the 1920s, the New Jersey Consumer’s League and the National Consumer’s League, studied the working conditions of women in the state of New Jersey and, in particular, the conditions in the textile mills of Passaic.
1921 Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), an expert in scientific management.
c. 1922-23 Watch Dial Painters, c. 1922-1923, a photograph of workers at the U.S. Radium Corporation in Orange.
1943 Women workers at the Federal Shipyard, Newark, 1943, sewing safety nets on a destroyer escort.
1956 Food Relief for Striking Westinghouse Workers, 1956. A photograph of women collecting groceries for strikers.