Portland author Anne Broyles last month published a new picture book to introduce children to the labor movement. “I’m Gonna Paint” tells the story of Italian American painter Ralph Fasanella, who painted large, mural-like images depicting working class people and social movements of the early 1900s. One of Fasanella’s best known pieces is a 45-by-90-inch oil painting  called “Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike.”

It recreates scenes from the nine-week strike at the Everett textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, an event Fasanella’s mother told her children about at the dinner table. The strike — one of the most significant struggles in U.S. labor history — spurred wage hikes and overtime pay for 275,000 workers in textile factories across New England.