Bodies of work civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh /

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Autor Principal: Slavishak, Edward Steven
Autor Corporativo: ProQuest (Firm)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Body, commodity, text.
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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!".