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Autore |
Slavishak Edward Steven |
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Titolo |
Bodies of work : 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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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Working class - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History |
Industrialization - Social aspects - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh |
Industries - Social aspects - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh |
City promotion - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History |
Pittsburgh (Pa.) History |
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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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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!". |
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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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