At Work: The Art of California Labor

Published by CHS Press and Heyday Books,

At Work: The Art of California Labor offers more than one hundred works by the artists who have recorded, preserved, and in some cases defined the history of labor in California over the last century. The first survey of its kind, At Work: The Art of California Labor reclaims this powerful legacy, informing and inspiring generations to come.

Edited by Mark Dean Johnson, professor of art at San Francisco State University. Forward by historian Grey Brechin, author of Imperial San Francisco and coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land. Afterword by longtime activist Tillie Olsen, author of Tell Me a Riddle.