Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor - Brossura

Bender, Daniel E.

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ISBN 10: 0813533384 ISBN 13: 9780813533384

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

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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In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants laboured in New York's Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that were among the worst examples of the Progressive Era. This book explores how sweatshops came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration.

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• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0813533384
• ISBN 13: 9780813533384
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288