#steelworker

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Steel workers at work on the Cities Service Building, with City Bank in the background, 1925.

Photo: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[manwalksintobar]

The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of our Hand  // Fred Voss

“Another day in paradise,” a machinist says to me as he drops his time card into the time     clock and the sun rises over the San Gabriel mountains and we laugh it’s a pretty good job we have considering how tough it is out there in so many other factories in this era of the busted union and the beaten-down worker but paradise? and we walk away toward our machines ready for another 10     hours inside tin walls as outside perfect blue waves roll onto black sand Hawaiian     beaches and billionaires raise martini glasses sailing their yachts to Cancun but I can’t help thinking why not paradise why not a job where I feel like I did when I was 4 out in my father’s garage joyously shaving a block of wood in his vise with his plane as a pile of sweet-smelling wood shavings rose at my feet and my father smiled down at me and we held the earth and the stars in the palm of our hand why not a job joyous as one of these poems I write a job where each turn of a wrench each ring of a hammer makes my soul sing out glad for each     drop of sweat rolling down my back because the world has woken up and     stopped worshiping money and power and fame and because presidents and kings and professors and popes and     Buddhas and mystics and watch repairmen and astrophysicists and waitresses and     undertakers know there is nothing more important than the strong grip and will of     men carving steel like I do nothing more important than Jorge muscling a drill through     steel plate so he can send money to his mother and sister living under a sacred mountain in     Honduras nothing more noble than bread on the table and a steel cutter’s grandson reaching for the moon and men dropping time cards into time clocks and stepping up to their machines like the sun couldn’t rise without them.

[henk-heijmans]

British wartime steelworkers take a cigarette break, ca. 1942 - by Harry Todd, English

[graphylight]

New Post has been published on Graphylight - André Alessio

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Foundry in Myanmar

En 2019, j’ai eu l’occasion de voyager au Myanmar. Je suis toujours à la recherche d’artisans et de savoir-faire à photographier quand je voyage.

Un soir, en parcourant  Mandale, j’ai trouvé une fonderie, elle réalise en particulier des woks pour la restauration ainsi que des grilles d’évacuation des eaux. J’y suis retourné le lendemain matin pour photographier le processus.

La mise en œuvre se fait à partir de produits en aluminium recyclés. Tout est récupéré, trié par des femmes en amont, concassé, avant d’être mis à fondre dans le four. Ce travail est manuel, très physique. Les conditions de travail sont éloignées de nos critères, mais je crois qu’il y règne une incroyable atmosphère de solidarité et de bonne entente. Le métal en fusion est amené dans un four qui a été au préalable nettoyé et graissé. Le coulage du métal en fusion nécessite toute une équipe, avec un responsable qui réalise un bouchon une fois le volume rempli pour obturer le moule. Le démoulage se fait quelques minutes après, et le cycle reprend. Merci à ces hommes pour leur accueil et leur gentillesse, leur bonne humeur incroyable, je ne peux qu’être ébahi devant ce savoir faire. 

La totalité du reportage est visible dans ce portfolio: Work in a foundry

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

“This season Kristen is learning that chaos isn’t cute” MY ASS.

SHE IS WINNIE THE POOHING IT IN A SCHOOL HALLWAY.

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

It's been awhile since I covered up speech bubbles that went over people's bodies so I just wanted to try practicing it a bit again. I also just liked this panel and thought it could be a nice banner.

[buniyaad]

why is michael dorn's kon the funniest bitch alive.

[dailydccomics]

Natasha Irons *:･ﾟ✧ Steelworks (2023) / Gotham City Garage vol 1

[iww-gnv]

MACON, Ga. — Over 300 workers at Kumho Tire company have unionized– making them the second biggest company in recent months to join the United Steelworkers. The other is Bluebird in Peach County. Four years ago, James Golden said he needed a career change.   “I knew Kumho was a new plant, so I wanted to go somewhere I could grow,” he said. Golden says as a belt operator, he likes the job but noticed that the company could use some change too.  “With it being a new plant, there was a lot of confusion about pay, confusion about fair labor practices,” he said. “I said, ‘yeah, we definitely need a union here.’” Golden said he wanted to learn more about how to unionize and took a trip to their union hall.

[drbatsponge]

Cassandra Cain on covers for November/December.

[artverso]

Sanford Greene - Steelworks

[fae-morrigan]

my ideal metropolis super team if im being #real

[soranatus]

Steelworks (2023) #1 Variant Cover by Joshua Swaby for DC Pride

[jackdoe]

Yeah, I agree Conner.

[current-comix]

[dailydccomics]

family meeting has come to order Steelworks #2