Umfang:
Online-Ressource (x, 354 p)
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ill
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0822389347
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0822342065
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0822342251
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9780822389347
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9780822342069
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9780822342250
Serie:
Body, commodity, text
Inhalt:
Cultural history of the relationship between labor and the city in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh, which focuses on how the working-class body was used to symbolize Pittsburgh as a city of industry
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index
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CONTENTS; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on usage; Introduction; 1 The Magic of the Nineteenth Century: Industrial Change and Work in Pittsburgh; 2 Working-Class Muscle in the Battle of Homestead; 3 The Working Body as a Civic Image; 4 The Pittsburgh Survey and the Body as Evidence; 5 ''Delicately Built'': The ''Problem'' of Working Women in Pittsburgh; 6 Hiding and Displaying the Broken Body; Epilogue. ''That's Work, and That's What People Like to Watch!''; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780822342069
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bodies of Work : Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
