Bodies of Work - Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

Informationen zum Autor Edward Slavishak is Assistant Professor of History at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Cultural history of the relationship between labor and the city in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh 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

Product details

• Authors: Edward Slavishak, Edward Steven Slavishak
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2008
• EAN: 9780822342069
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4206-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries