Sweated Work, Weak Bodies : Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor / / Daniel E. Bender

• Autore: Bender Daniel E.
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.25
• Soggetto topico: Anti-sweatshop movement; Garment workers - United States - History; Foreign workers - United States - History; Sweatshops - United States - Prevention - History; Sweatshops - United States - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-252) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Author
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sweated Work, Weak Bodies
• ISBN: 1-283-59198-7; 9786613904430; 0-8135-4255-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248272303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno