Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts

Realism (arts)

Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects "in accordance with secular, empirical rules", as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation...

, which depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class

Working class

Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...

 activities as heroic. The movement is a style of painting in which the scenes depicted typically convey a message of social or political protest edged with satire.