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Author Slavishak, Edward Steven

Title Bodies of work : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh / Edward Slavishak
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 354 pages) : illustrations
Series Body, commodity, text
Body, commodity, text.
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!"
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-343) and index
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Subject Working class -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History
Industrialization -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Industries -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
City promotion -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
City promotion
Industrialization -- Social aspects
Industries -- Social aspects
Working class
Arbeiter
Industrialisierung
Körper
SUBJECT Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85102515
Subject Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822389347
0822389347