Workplace that has socially unacceptable working conditions

An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.

Prostitution, spas, sex, racial characterization, sweated labour, hospitals, anatomy. Photographs and prints, ca. 1890-1930.

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Sweatshops

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An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.

Prostitution, spas, sex, racial characterization, sweated labour, hospitals, anatomy. Photographs and prints, ca. 1890-1930.