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Introduction. Allegories of work -- Saturnino Herrán, José Guadalupe Posada, and the working class on the eve of revolution -- Workers and artists in the 1910 revolution -- El Machete and cultural and political vanguards -- Consuming labor: revista CROM, art education, and la lectura preferida -- Cardenismo, the popular front, and the league of revolutionary artists and writers -- The Mexican Electricians Union, the art of the strike and the Spanish Civil War -- "Unity at all costs!" and the end of revolution -- Conclusion