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The photographic strategy in Workers centers on black-and-white portraits and scenes that document laborers engaged across various industrial sectors, emphasizing both the physicality and dignity of work. Sebastião Salgado’s approach creates a visual archaeology of the industrial age by capturing the human face behind global economic shifts, focusing on the sweat and toil embedded in manufacturing and extraction.

Through 400 pages, the book offers a sustained meditation on the conditions of workers worldwide, revealing textures of skin, expressions shaped by hardship, and environments marked by machinery and grit. The mood is one of solemn respect and profound empathy, presenting labor not as mere means of production but as a testament to resilience and shared human effort. Published in 1993 by Phaidon, with contributions from Lélia Wanick Salgado, the work stands as a significant photographic archive of industrial labor.