Bodies of work [[electronic resource] ] : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / / Edward Slavishak

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777991103321
• Autore: Slavishak Edward Steven
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-8223-8934-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (370 p.)
• Collana: Body, Commodity, Text
• Altri autori (Persone): AppaduraiArjun; ComaroffJean L; FarquharJudith
• Disciplina: 305.5/62097488609034
• Soggetti: Working class - History - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania; Industrialization - Social aspects - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh; Industries - Social aspects - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania; City promotion - History - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania; Business & Economics; Labor & Workers' Economics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on usage; Introduction; 1 The Magic of the Nineteenth Century: Industrial Change and Work in Pittsburgh; 2 Working-Class Muscle in the Battle of Homestead; 3 The Working Body as a Civic Image; 4 The Pittsburgh Survey and the Body as Evidence; 5 ''Delicately Built'': The ''Problem'' of Working Women in Pittsburgh; 6 Hiding and Displaying the Broken Body; Epilogue. ''That's Work, and That's What People Like to Watch!''; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.

What's Shared in Sharing Tasks and Actions? Processes and Representations Underlying Joint Performance

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557644103321
• Autore: Yamaguchi Motonori
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frontiers Media SA, 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Soggetti: Psychology; Science: general issues
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
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