Individuals represented include Ralph Fasanella (union organizer and self-taught painter known for depicting working‑class life), Katie Quan (labor organizer, one of the organizers of the New York's Chinatown garment workers’ strike in the 1982), Ray Markey (library union organizer and president of Local 1930), Lane Kirkland (president of the AFL‑CIO), Judith Vladick (labor lawyer noted for her work on women's rights in the workplace), Debra Bernhardt (labor historian), Dorothy Day (activist, anarchist, and pacifist), Philip Sipser (political activist and labor lawyer), César Chávez (Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist, co‑founder of the National Farm Workers Association, later: the United Farm Workers), Albert Shanker (president of the American Federation of Teachers).