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Bodies of work : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / Edward Slavishak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slavishak, Edward Steven.
- Series:
- Body, commodity, text.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Body, commodity, text
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.
- Working class.
- Industrialization--Social aspects--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Industrialization.
- Industries--Social aspects--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Industries.
- City promotion--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.
- City promotion.
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)--History.
- Pittsburgh (Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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!".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822389347
- 0822389347
- OCLC:
- 308677467
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