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Sweated work, weak bodies, anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor, Daniel E. Bender

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Sweated work, weak bodies, anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor, Daniel E. Bender

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sweated work, weak bodies

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographytheses

Responsibility statement

Daniel E. Bender

Series statement

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Sub title

anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor

Table Of Contents

Part 1. Race, class, gender, and defining the sweatshop and modern shop in progressive America. Eastern European Jews and the rise of a transnational garment economy ; "The great Jewish métier" : factory inspectors, Jewish workers, and defining the sweatshop, 1880-1910 ; "A race ignorant, miserable and immoral" : sweatshop danger and labor in the home, 1890-1910 ; Workers made well : home, work, homework, and the model shop, 1910-1930 -- pt. 2. Women and gender in the sweatshop and in the anti-sweatshop campaign. Gaunt men, gaunt wives : femininity, masculinity, and the worker question, 1880-1909 ; Inspecting bodies : sexual difference and strategies of organizing, 1910-1930 ; "Swallowed up in a sea of masculinity" : factionalism and gender struggles in the ILGWU, 1910-1934

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