Tag: work

Twenty-three-year-old Noah Webster Smith was painting the ceiling of a Greenville power house when an ordinary afternoon’s work ended in tragedy in 1924. Smith was…

A mine cage was supposed to carry workers safely down into the darkness and back again, but when something went wrong, it could become a…

In the early 1900s, contortionists were all the rage. Newspapers would often print photographs of contortionists in various positions and they were the source of…

People have been waging labor strikes since, at the least, the time of the ancient Pharaohs. It was not something that was affiliated with a…