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Bodies of work, civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh, Edward Slavishak

Label
Bodies of work, civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh, Edward Slavishak
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Bodies of work
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Responsibility statement
Edward Slavishak
Series statement
Body, commodity, text
Sub title
civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh
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!"