Slavishak / Appadurai / Comaroff Bodies of Work

Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8934-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Body, Commodity, Text

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slavishak, Edward

Appadurai, Arjun

Comaroff, Jean L.

Farquhar, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Note on Usage xiii

Introduction 1

1. The Magic of the Nineteenth Century: Industrial Change and Work in Pittsburgh 17

2. Working-Class Muscle in the Battle of Homestead 64

3. The Working Body as Civic Image 89

4. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Body as Evidence 149

5. "Delicately Built": The "Problem" of Working Women in Pittsburgh 200

6. Hiding and Displaying the Broken Body 224

Epilogue: "That's Work, and That's What People Like to Watch!" 265

Notes 277

Bibliography 319

Index 345

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Slavishak is Assistant Professor of History at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.