AT WORK: THE ART OF CALIFORNIA LABOR opened at the California Historical Society (CHS) September 1 (Labor Day) through December 20, 2003 and at the San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery from September 2 to October 11, 2003.

Testifying to the power of California labor art over the last century, the exhibition included work by photographers Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, and Otto Hagel, painter Diego Rivera, printmakers Rupert Garcia and Emmy Lou Packard, and other pivotal artists of the era. Mark Johnson, director of the SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, curated the exhibition.

Johnson has created a visual journey that follows early 20th century labor events and conditions: the rise of statewide organized labor; the changing demographics of the wartime workforce; the zenith of the California Labor School; the farm workers' movement; the disenfranchisement of workers in the service economy; the potent effects of globalization at the century's end.