Labor
Workers assemble Toyota Corollas at the New United Motor Manufacturing plant.
1999•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
In 1999, Bacon photographed workers on the assembly line at the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California. Factory.
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Workers assemble Toyota Corollas at the New United Motor Manufacturing plant.
1999•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
The NUMMI plant was originally a General Motors plant between 1962 and 1982, which closed and then reopened in 1984 as a partnership between GM and Toyota.
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Workers assemble Toyota Corollas at the New United Motor Manufacturing plant.
1999•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
These photographs document work on the assembly line for the Toyota Corolla.
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Workers assemble Toyota Corollas at the New United Motor Manufacturing plant.
1999•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
As is often the case with labor photography, these images do not identify individual workers by name. However, they do provide a composite picture of the diversity of the NUMMI workforce and document the mix of manual and automated production at the plant.
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Workers assemble Toyota Corollas at the New United Motor Manufacturing plant.
1999•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
At its peak of productivity in 2006, workers at the NUMMI plant produced more than 400,000 vehicles.
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Workers assemble Toyota Corollas at the New United Motor Manufacturing plant.
1999•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
After GM withdrew from the partnership, Toyota continued to operate this facility, manufacturing Toyota Corollas there until the plant closed in 2009, bringing NUMMI’s history to an end.
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Workers assemble Toyota Corollas at the New United Motor Manufacturing plant.
1999•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
However, after a partnership was announced between Toyota and Tesla to develop electric vehicles, the plant was acquired by Tesla in 2010 and renamed the Tesla Fremont Factory.
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A crew of farm workers working behind a lettuce machine harvests head lettuce for D'Arrigo Brothers Produce
1999•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
Another area of work that Bacon’s photographs extensively document is agricultural labor. In this 2018 photo taken in Salinas, California, to the south of Silicon Valley, a crew of farm workers working behind a lettuce machine harvests head lettuce for D'Arrigo Brothers Produce.
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Maria Teresa Castro works in a crew of farm workers harvesting head lettuce for D'Arrigo Brothers Produce
2018•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
Maria Teresa Castro works in a crew of farm workers harvesting head lettuce for D'Arrigo Brothers Produce
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Forewoman Blanca and Supervisor Sergio Flores check the quality of the lettuce harvested.
2018•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
Forewoman Blanca and Supervisor Sergio Flores check the quality of the lettuce harvested.
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Hildseberto Hernandez Gonzalez works in a crew of farm workers harvesting nopal, or prickly pear cactus
2018•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
Hildseberto Hernandez Gonzalez works in a crew of farm workers harvesting nopal, or prickly pear cactus, also in Salinas.
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Agricultural Labor
An organizer talks with a worker with a union button on her cap.
March 1994-April 1994•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
Bacon’s images are not limited to work-related activities. He has been documenting labor activism for many years, particularly among farm workers. Here, in 1994, an organizer converses with a worker wearing a union button on her cap
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An organizer talks with broccoli cutters on their lunch break.
March 1994-April 1994•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
In this photograph, also taken in 1994, a labor organizer speaks with broccoli cutters on their lunch break.
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Farmworkers, members of the United Farm Workers, march through the streets of Salinas after going on strike, demanding a contract.
August 09, 1998•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
In 1998, farmworkers belonging to the United Farm Workers, march through the streets of Salinas after going on strike, demanding a contract.
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The hands of a housekeeper at a Class A hotel.
1998•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
Taken in San Francisco in 1998, the hands of a hotel housekeeper. Bacon’s photographs also document the impact of work on people and their lives.
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Laundry workers, American Linen Supply.
2000•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
A laundry worker at American Linen Supply, San Francisco.
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Homeless couple in Oakland live under the freeway.
February 11, 2014•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
A homeless couple living under the freeway in Oakland.
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Building trades workers in downtown Oakland celebrate May Day.
May 01, 2019•David Bacon
Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
Building trades workers in downtown Oakland celebrate May Day, 2019.
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