Images of women's labour from the Image & Sound collection of the IISH can be searched through the catalogue. Select the Visual Documents section, and enter your terms.
A few exemplary images and searches:
Brick Making in the Netherlands, c 1890.
Search all pictures on 'women's labour'
Prostitution, Casablanca 1939.
Search all pictures on 'prostitution'
Road Sweepers, London 1914-1918.
Search all pictures on 'role patterns'
See also:
- search results 'work home'
- search results 'child labour'
- search results 'women education'
- search results 'emancipation women'
- the database History of work (HISCO) also has an image section.