Eyes on labor [[electronic resource] ] : news photography and America's working class / / Carol Quirke
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| Autore: |
Quirke Carol
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| Titolo: |
Eyes on labor [[electronic resource] ] : news photography and America's working class / / Carol Quirke
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.880973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Labor unions - United States - History - 20th century |
| Labor unions - United States | |
| Labor movement - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Labor movement - United States | |
| Photography - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Documentary photography - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "The Central Instrument of Our Time"; 1. "The Quick Nervousness of Pictures Is a New Language": Organized Labor Before Photojournalism; 2. Consuming Labor: LIFE Magazine and Mass Production Unionism, 1936-1942; 3. Bitter Kisses: Pictures of the Hershey Chocolate Sit-Down Strike, April 1937; 4. "Strike Photos Are Star Witnesses": Photographs and Newsreels of Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre, May 1937; 5. Steel Labor and the United Steelworkers of America's Culture of Constraint, 1936-1950 |
| 6. "This Picture Shows What We Are Fighting For": Local 65 Distributive Workers' Rank-and-File Photography, 1933-1953Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how news photography brought workers into the nation's mainstream. Carol Quirke focuses on images ignored by scholars but seen by millions of Americans in the news of the day. Part visual analysis, part labor and cultural history, Quirke analyzes over one hundred photographs: stereographs of the Uprising of 1877, tabloid photos of t |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Eyes on labor |
| ISBN: | 1-283-57729-1 |
| 9786613889744 | |
| 0-19-987755-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785617803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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