Edward Slavishak

Bodies of Work

Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultural history of the relationship between labor and the city in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh, which focuses on how the working-class body was used to symbolize Pittsburgh as a city of industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342250
• ISBN-10: 0822342251
• Artikelnr.: 23822571

Autorenporträt

Edward Slavishak

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Usage xiii
Introduction 1
1. The Magic of the Nineteenth Century: Industrial Change and Work in
Pittsburgh 17
2. Working-Class Muscle in the Battle of Homestead 64
3. The Working Body as Civic Image 89
4. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Body as Evidence 149
5. "Delicately Built": The "Problem" of Working Women in Pittsburgh 200
6. Hiding and Displaying the Broken Body 224
Epilogue: "That's Work, and That's What People Like to Watch!" 265
Notes 277
Bibliography 319
Index 345