A General Strike Is Proclaimed! (1914)
2016
Screen print, ink on poster board
11 x 17 inches (unframed), edition of 10

From the series New Demands? (2011-2023)

This work is based on a Yiddish language broadsheet calling for a dressmakers’ general strike in Philadelphia, September 8, 1914. The original broadsheet was also produced in English and Italian, languages spoken by the workers.

Photo: Robert Chase Heisman