Industrial Laborer Prints

"I'm afraid you're not cut out for precision assembly work. You're all thumbs."

Claus 2.0

"I'm going to need a little more for the root cause than, who'da thunk."

Polluted geese

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

"Jimmy, I want you to meet our new safety officer."

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

Motivation to work

'I'm afraid that serves you right for not wearing your safety goggles!'

Another Turning Point in the Industrial Revolution. Ford Motor Co. On second thought, let's put the cars on the conveyor belt.

'...we have every new employee spend time on our assembly line. Eight hours, no breaks.'

"Somehow, they get exempted from a lot of laws."

'I'm no expert, but I think we're a little behind when it comes to the latest industry technology.'

"We need a union!'

Fragile stamper.

Optical Illusion Supply Company.

"I'm afraid I'll be replaced by a robot at work."

'Unforeseeable future site of Hainesmore Industries.'

Axle greaseMarine greaseElbow grease .

"Well, son. . . here your dad makes the famous 'fresh from nature' food!"

"Hey, I just consider myself very fortunate to be getting paid for something I'd be doing anyway."

From Hunter-Gatherer to Influencer: The Evolution of the Dignity of Labor

Time Out For Teddy

Smoking Area. Oh, I don't smoke. I'm just addicted to ten-minute breaks.

"The election's over, Trump won, the illegals are being deported and I'm here for one of them there high-paying American jobs he promised."

"One day son, all this will be run by robots."

'The Easter Bunny has started outsourcing to us.'

Robot arm shows charity to a laid off beggar.

"Well, of course we married industrialists. All three of us were young and beautiful, and smokestack America looked like it would last forever."

'Business is booming.' - at Uncle Bert's Explosives

"Come to think of it, I can't think of the last time I saw a monarch around here."

Nuclear waste.

Pandora's boxes

"Of all the wet cement, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks in mine."

A new career for George W. Bush: taster in a pretzel factory.