| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
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T.p. screen of 2006-03-23 |
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Print version record |
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Sweatshops -- United States -- History
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Sweatshops -- United States -- Prevention -- History
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Foreign workers -- United States -- History
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Clothing workers -- United States -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Clothing workers
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Foreign workers
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Sweatshops
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Sweatshops -- Prevention
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003005737 |
| ISBN |
9780813542553 |
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0813542553 |
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0813534445 |
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9780813534442 |
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1283591987 |
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9781283591980 |
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9786613904430 |
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6613904430 |
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