Bodies of work : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Slavishak, Edward Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Body, commodity, text.
Subjects:
Working class > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh > History.
Industrialization > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh.
Industries > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh.
City promotion > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh > History.
Travailleurs > Pennsylvanie > Pittsburgh > Histoire.
Industrialisation > Aspect social > Pennsylvanie > Pittsburgh.
Villes > Marketing > Pennsylvanie > Pittsburgh > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
City promotion
Industrialization > Social aspects
Industries > Social aspects
Working class
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > History.
Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The magic of the nineteenth century: industrial change and work in Pittsburgh
  • Working-class muscle in the battle of homestead
  • The working body as a civic image
  • The Pittsburgh survey and the body as evidence
  • "Delicately built": the "problem" of working women in Pittsburgh
  • Hiding and displaying the broken body
  • Epilogue: "That's work, and that's what people like to watch!"

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