This print commemorates worker strikes in the 1940s and 1950s at the Roebling Steel Mill outside of Trenton, NJ.
The artist etched historic photos of the strikes into the surface of a corrugated cardboard Amazon box, which she then inked and used as a printing plate in an intaglio press. The textured surface of the cardboard creates a backdrop for the marching figures, tying the majority Eastern European immigrant workforce of Roebling Mill to New Jersey’s economic dependence on Latin American immigrant workers in the warehouse distribution industry today. Both Roebling Mill and Amazon warehouse workers have protested working conditions and speed-related safety issues.
Soy-based ink intaglio on cotton paper (32 in x 37 in)
