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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.  
Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
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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.  
New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2004]
Materiale a stampa
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