Bodies of work : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / Edward Slavishak.

Main entry:

Slavishak, Edward Steven, author.

Title & Author:

Bodies of work : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / Edward Slavishak.

Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.

Description:

x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Body, commodity, text

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-343) and index.
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!"

Summary:

"By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh's major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple often contradictory narratives about strength and vulnerability, mastery and exploitation. In Bodies of Work, Edward Slavishak explores how Pittsburgh and the working body were symbolically linked in civic celebrations, the research of social scientists, the criticisms of labor reformers, advertisements, and workers' self-representations. Combining labor and cultural history with visual culture studies, he chronicles a heated contest to define Pittsburgh's essential character at the turn of the twentieth century, and he describes how that contest was conducted largely through the production of competing images."--Jacket

Resources:
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Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780822342069 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822342065 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822342250 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822342251 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Working class Pennsylvania Pittsburgh History.
Industrialization Social aspects Pennsylvania Pittsburgh.
Industries Social aspects Pennsylvania Pittsburgh.
City promotion Pennsylvania Pittsburgh History.
Travailleurs Pennsylvanie Pittsburgh Histoire.
Industrialisation Aspect social Pennsylvanie Pittsburgh.
Villes Marketing Pennsylvanie Pittsburgh Histoire.
City promotion
Industrialization Social aspects
Industries Social aspects
Working class
Arbeiter
Industrialisierung
Körper
Pittsburgh (Pa.) History.
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Body, commodity, text.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259170
Call No.: BIB 190033
Status: Available

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