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Autore: | Slavishak Edward Steven |
Titolo: | Bodies of work [[electronic resource] ] : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / / Edward Slavishak |
Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.5/62097488609034 |
Soggetto topico: | Working class - History - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania |
Industrialization - Social aspects - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh | |
Industries - Social aspects - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania | |
City promotion - History - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania | |
Business & Economics | |
Labor & Workers' Economics | |
Altri autori: | AppaduraiArjun ComaroffJean L FarquharJudith |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on usage; Introduction; 1 The Magic of the Nineteenth Century: Industrial Change and Work in Pittsburgh; 2 Working-Class Muscle in the Battle of Homestead; 3 The Working Body as a Civic Image; 4 The Pittsburgh Survey and the Body as Evidence; 5 ''Delicately Built'': The ''Problem'' of Working Women in Pittsburgh; 6 Hiding and Displaying the Broken Body; Epilogue. ''That's Work, and That's What People Like to Watch!''; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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: | 0-8223-8934-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777991103321 |
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