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Slavishak Edward Steven |
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Bodies of work [[electronic resource] ] : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / / Edward Slavishak |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (370 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AppaduraiArjun |
ComaroffJean L |
FarquharJudith |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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