Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor by Daniel E. Bender (Lecturer in History, Princeton University, USA) (Hardcover, 2004)
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 Bodiesis 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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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13
9780813533377
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90138553
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Work
Author
Daniel E. Bender (Lecturer in History, Princeton University, Usa)
Publication Name
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics, History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Title_Author
Daniel E. Bender (Lecturer in History, Princeton University, Usa)