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Sweated work, weak bodies : anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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 Métier" 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.