03807nam 22006255 450 99624827230331620230617014539.01-283-59198-797866139044300-8135-4255-310.36019/9780813542553(CKB)2670000000230638(EBL)979589(OCoLC)804665150(OCoLC)73999131(MdBmJHUP)muse21408(DE-B1597)529399(DE-B1597)9780813542553(MiAaPQ)EBC979589(Au-PeEL)EBL979589(CaONFJC)MIL390443(EXLCZ)99267000000023063820200623h20042004 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSweated Work, Weak Bodies Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor /Daniel E. BenderNew Brunswick, NJ :Rutgers University Press,[2004]©20041 online resource (286 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-3337-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-252) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: The Language and the Limits of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing --Introduction --One. Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy --Two. “The Great Jewish Métier”: Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880–1910 --Three. “A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral”: Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890–1910 --Four. Workers Made Well: Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910–1930 --Introduction --Five. Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker Question, 1880–1909 --Six. Inspecting Bodies: Sexual Difference and Strategies of Organizing, 1910–1930 --Seven. “Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity”: Factionalism and Gender Struggles in the ILGWU, 1909–1934 --Conclusion: “Our Marching Orders . . . Advance toward the Goal of Industrial Decency”: Measuring the Burden of Language --Epilogue: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century --Notes --Index --About the AuthorIn the early 1900's, thousands of immigrants labored in New York's Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that came to be seen as among the worst examples of Progressive-Era American industrialization. Although reformers agreed that these unsafe workplaces must be abolished, their reasons have seldom been fully examined. Sweated Work, Weak Bodies is the first book on the origins of sweatshops, exploring how they came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration. It is an innovative study of the language used to define the sweatshop, how these definitions shaped the first anti-sweatshop campaign, and how they continue to influence our current understanding of the sweatshop.Anti-sweatshop movementGarment workersUnited StatesHistoryForeign workersUnited StatesHistorySweatshopsUnited StatesPreventionHistorySweatshopsUnited StatesHistoryAnti-sweatshop movement.Garment workersHistory.Foreign workersHistory.SweatshopsPreventionHistory.SweatshopsHistory.331.25Bender Daniel E.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut908504DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996248272303316Sweated Work, Weak Bodies2371537UNISA