Bodies of work [[electronic resource] ] : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / / Edward Slavishak |
Autore | Slavishak Edward Steven |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/62097488609034 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AppaduraiArjun
ComaroffJean L FarquharJudith |
Collana | Body, Commodity, Text |
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 |
ISBN | 0-8223-8934-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777991103321 |
Slavishak Edward Steven
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A colonial lexicon of birth ritual, medicalization, and mobility in the Congo [[electronic resource] /] / Nancy Rose Hunt |
Autore | Hunt Nancy Rose |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 392.1/2/096751 |
Collana | Body, commodity, text |
Soggetto topico |
Birth customs - Congo (Democratic Republic)
Birth customs - Religious aspects Childbirth - Religious aspects - Christianity Protestant churches - Missions - Congo (Democratic Republic) - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786613062239
0-8223-8136-2 1-283-06223-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Crocodiles and wealth -- 2. Doctors and airplanes -- 3. Dining and surgery -- 4. Nurses and bicycles -- 5. Babies and forceps -- 6. Colonial maternities -- 7. Debris -- Departures. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248030703316 |
Hunt Nancy Rose
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Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 1999 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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