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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968182403321

Autore

Slavishak Edward Steven

Titolo

Bodies of work : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / / Edward Slavishak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780822389347

0822389347

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Body, commodity, text

Disciplina

305.5/62097488609034

Soggetti

Working class - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History

Industrialization - Social aspects - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh

Industries - Social aspects - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh

City promotion - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History

Pittsburgh (Pa.) History

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

The magic of the nineteenth century: industrial change and work in Pittsburgh -- Working-class muscle in the battle of homestead -- The working body as a civic image -- The Pittsburgh survey and the body as evidence -- "Delicately built": the "problem" of working women in Pittsburgh -- Hiding and displaying the broken body -- Epilogue: "That's work, and that's what people like to watch!".

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.