United Auto Workers and their families holding up Drive It Home campaign signs outside UAW Local 1112 Reuther, Scandy, Alli union hall, Lordstown, OH 2019, 2019
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 44 1/2 × 59 3/4 in. (113.03 × 151.77 cm)
- Accession Number
- 2020.17
- Credit
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Purchase with funds provided by the Drawings and Photography Committee
This photograph encapsulated the time Frazier spent with the autoworkers community of Lordstown, Ohio, documenting the “unallocation” of the General Motors plant (one of the largest auto production facilities in the world) in a series called The Last Cruze.
The aerial view captures United Auto Workers (UAW) Union Local 1112 members holding signs protesting the closing of the plant, which had committed to making the Chevy Cruze through 2021 before unexpectedly closing in March of 2019 and leaving 1,600 people without jobs. Frazier’s group portrait brings to light both the laborers who make the products and the socioeconomic structure that seemingly has eyes only for the bottom line and the benefit of corporate executives.
