03860nam 22007573 450 991100925190332120240722082334.097802520567410252056744(MiAaPQ)EBC31278089(Au-PeEL)EBL31278089(CKB)32644938900041(OCoLC)1412153794(MdBmJHUP)musev2_124343(Perlego)4476035(OCoLC)1443932040(EXLCZ)993264493890004120240706d2024 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCircus World Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show1st ed.Champaign :University of Illinois Press,2024.©2024.1 online resource (292 pages)Working Class in American History Series9780252045868 0252045866 9780252087967 0252087968 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: The circus migrant making circus day human and animal circus workers and their knowledge networks -- Part II: The circus lot women's work and gendered circus labor in the tented shows animal motherhood and (Re)constructed circus families captive, coerced, and frontline sideshow workers -- Part III: The circus world from the outside the circus as big business the making of the circus celebrity organized circus labor and working-class audiences -- Conclusion: Circus afterlives."From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and the traditional and nontraditional laborers who created it. Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work. Illuminating and vivid, Circus World delves into the gender, class, and even species concerns within an extinct way of life. "--Provided by publisher.Working Class in American History SeriesLaborfast(OCoLC)fst00989798Circus workersfast(OCoLC)fst00861683Circusfast(OCoLC)fst00861646HISTORY / Modern / 19th CenturybisacshPERFORMING ARTS / CircusbisacshLaborUnited StatesHistoryCircus workersUnited StatesHistoryCircusUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesfastHistory.Electronic books. Labor.Circus workers.Circus.HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.PERFORMING ARTS / Circus.LaborHistory.Circus workersHistory.CircusHistory.791.30973PER002000HIS037060bisacshRinger Andrea1826798MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911009251903321Circus World4394800UNINA