Bodies of work : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / / Edward Slavishak
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.5/62097488609034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Working class - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History |
| Industrialization - Social aspects - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh | |
| Industries - Social aspects - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh | |
| City promotion - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Pittsburgh (Pa.) History |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bodies of work |
| ISBN: | 9780822389347 |
| 0822389347 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910968182403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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