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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777991103321

Autore

Slavishak Edward Steven

Titolo

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

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.