Sweatshop : The History of an American Idea /

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Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories told. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that policymakers are concerned with, nor intending...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hapke, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sweatshops.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Sweating-system > États-Unis > Histoire.
Sweatshops > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Narrating the shop
  • A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop
  • Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond
  • Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression
  • The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art
  • Spinning the shop
  • Spinning the new shop: El Monte and the Smithsonian furor
  • Nike's sweatshop quandary and the industrial sublime
  • Watching out for the shop.

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