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Author Bender, Daniel E.

Title Sweated work, weak bodies : anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor / Daniel E. Bender
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004

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Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in Progressive America; Chapter 1: Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy; Chapter 2: "The Great Jewish Métier" Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880-1910; Chapter 3: "A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral" Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890-1910; Chapter 4: Workers Made Well Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910-1930; Part II: Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
Summary Sweated Work, Weak Bodies is the first book on the origins of sweatshops, exploring how they came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration
Notes "This electronic book contains the following additional features not available in the print version: Links to external informational resources; 9 additional images"--Copyright and Permissions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
T.p. screen of 2006-03-23
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Subject Sweatshops -- United States -- History
Sweatshops -- United States -- Prevention -- History
Foreign workers -- United States -- History
Clothing workers -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Clothing workers
Foreign workers
Sweatshops
Sweatshops -- Prevention
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003005737
ISBN 9780813542553
0813542553
0813534445
9780813534442
1283591987
9781283591980
9786613904430
6613904430