Sweated work, weak bodies : anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor
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Sweated work, weak bodies : anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor
Rutgers University Press, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-252) and index
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Contents of Works
- Race, class, gender, and the defining the sweatshop and modern shop in progressive America
- Eastern European Jews and the rise of a transnational garment economy
- The great Jewish mětier
- A race ignorant, miserable and immoral
- Workers made well
- Women and gender in the sweatshop and in the anti-sweatshop campaign
- Gaunt men, gaunt wives
- Inspecting bodies
- Swallowed up in a sea of masculinity
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780813533377
Description
In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants labored in New Yorks Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that came to be seen as among the worst examples of Progressive-Era American industrialization. Although reformers agreed that these unsafe workplaces must be abolished, their reasons have seldom been fully examined.
Sweated Work, Weak Bodiesis the first book on the origins of sweatshops, exploring how they came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration. It is an innovative study of the language used to define the sweatshop, how these definitions shaped the first anti-sweatshop campaign, and how they continue to influence our current understanding of the sweatshop.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813533384
Description
In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants labored in New Yorks Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that came to be seen as among the worst examples of Progressive-Era American industrialization. Although reformers agreed that these unsafe workplaces must be abolished, their reasons have seldom been fully examined.
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies is the first book on the origins of sweatshops, exploring how they came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration. It is an innovative study of the language used to define the sweatshop, how these definitions shaped the first anti-sweatshop campaign, and how they continue to influence our current understanding of the sweatshop.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in Progressive America
Chapter 1: Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy
Chapter 2: "The Great Jewish Me tier" Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880-1910
Chapter 3: "A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral" Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890-1910
Chapter 4: Workers Made Well Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910-1930
Part II: Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
Chapter 5: Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker Question, 1880-1909
Chapter 6: Inspecting Bodies: Sexual Difference and Strategies of Organizing, 1910-1930
Chapter 7: "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
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