"Modern Shop with Many Windows" (from A General Survey of the Sanitary Conditions of the Shops in the Cloak Industry [New York: Joint Board of Sanitary Control, 1911], 25; image from the collection of the Tamiment-Wagner Labor Archives, New York University). The JBSC praised this new loft factory for its modernity. The composition of the photograph captures the sense of spaciousness, rationality, modernity, progress, and ultimately sanitary safety.

From Sweated work, weak bodies: anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor by Daniel E. Bender