Text continues: ... for 1,000 men 16 to 35 for first line of defense. Dekum Building, Portland. Your country needs you. Wells Fargo & Co. Express. Poster is mainly text, with small American flag. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

The course explores the interactions between state and market as instigators of China’s urbanization, and its consequences of land, housing, transportation, energy, environment, migration, finance, urban inequality. Themes include the de-synchronization of China’s urbanization, potential differences between China’s past and future development, and differentiators between China’s urbanization and those of other countries. This discussion-based course asks students to participate in the conversation with the course instructor and guest lecturers by drawing upon their experiences and academic or professional backgrounds.

U.S. Army recruiting poster showing a man in civilian clothing and a soldier in uniform working as engineers.

Poster showing a man in overalls at work, and a soldier. Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army, Washington Barracks, D.C.

Poster showing a worker tipping his hat to Uncle Sam and saying, "You bet I will!" A tiny bird comments, "That's the stuff!" Title continues: America needs its man power. Sticking to your job will help to shorten the war and pave the way for a prosperous peace. The demand for supplies for Our Boys "over there" is so great that every bit of man power we possess is needed. If you can't enlist, get a job and hold on to it. It's your way to help "lick the Kaiser." Issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement, 30 Church Street, New York City. Copies supplied on request. No. F-1.

Three women pulling cultivating machine. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007.

App-driven jobs allow workers to decide when, where, and how much to work—one “gig” at a time. Learn more about this new employment trend in the January 2019 issue of Page One Economics.

Exhibit poster showing two scenes in which men with partial arm amputations perform mechanical drafting without the need for prostheses. Poster caption: For one-armed men, mechanical drafting has proved a good occupation. This was especially the case during the war. The men are able to handle the instruments with one good hand and the stump of the other arm. Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.

Poster showing women working at a lathe in a factory complex, with a YWCA structure visible through the window. Text continues: €ź25,000 immediately needed for the Women's War Time Fund to provide rest-rooms, canteens & hostels. Young Women's Christian Association. Title from item.

U.S. Army Air Service recruiting poster showing men on an airfield with airplanes flying overhead, and six halftone illustrations of classrooms for the "welding department, motor transport department, practical drafting and blueprint reading, instruction in areo engines, ignition course, [and] machinists' practice shop."