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TL;DR: It was staged for publicity, but the men are all real iron workers
The resulting photograph became one of the most iconic images in the world, an embodiment of the spirit of the American worker.
Is that what this is supposed to represent? I’ve shared this image for years as an example of capitalist dystopia.
I’ve always seen it as just how little of a shit they have about worker safety back then, not anything about “work ethic” or “look at how America good”
