The Animal Game : Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo / / Daniel E. Bender
| The Animal Game : Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo / / Daniel E. Bender |
| Autore | Bender Daniel E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (400 pages) |
| Disciplina | 590.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Zoos - United States - History
Zoos - Employees Wild animal trade - History Endangered species - History |
| ISBN |
9780674972766
0674972767 9780674972759 0674972759 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Zoo Parade -- 1. The Elephant’s Skin: Animals and Their Visitors -- 2. The Voyage of the Silverash: The Big Business of Tropical Animals -- 3. Jungleland: The Money in Wildlife -- 4. The Monkeys’ Island: The New Deal Builds a Modern Zoo -- 5. Aping: African Animals on Zoo Stages -- 6. Don’t Feed the Keepers: The Labor and Care of Zookeepers -- 7. The Zoo Man’s Holiday: Adventuring for the Zoo -- 8. My Animal Babies: Caring for Endangered Species -- 9. Dangerous Safari: Conservation at the End of Empire -- Conclusion: Searching for the Yeti -- Notes -- On Zoo Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136109903321 |
Bender Daniel E.
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| Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2016] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sweated Work, Weak Bodies : Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor / / Daniel E. Bender
| Sweated Work, Weak Bodies : Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor / / Daniel E. Bender |
| Autore | Bender Daniel E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [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 |
| ISBN |
1-283-59198-7
9786613904430 0-8135-4255-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248272303316 |
Bender Daniel E.
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| New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2004] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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