Sweated Work, Weak Bodies
Daniel E. Bender, Canada Research Chair in Cultural History and Analysis and Associate Professor of History and Comparative Literature Daniel E Bender
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.
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Year:
2004
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
0813533376
ISBN 13:
9780813533377
File:
PDF, 1.35 MB
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english, 2004