Self-help thatching and maintaining your scythe, blacksmiths hard at work in their forges, a tilt-hammer in another forge, and a tinker fixing pots.
Josephson
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Paintings showing the ragged tatters work by peasants and labourers, from social realism and Naturalism between 1850-90.
From 1880, artists concentrated on social aspects of work. They questioned whether young children should be at work, and the role of the worker in society.
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