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Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

Slavishak, Edward

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Series: Body, Commodity, Text

EconomicsGeneral World HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

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ISBN10: 0822342251
ISBN13: 9780822342250
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Sep 16 2008
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh's major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple often contradictory narratives about strength and vulnerability, mastery and exploitation. In Bodies of Work, Edward Slavishak explores how Pittsburgh and the working body were symbolically linked in civic celebrations, the research of social scientists, the criticisms of labor reformers, advertisements, and workers' self-representations. Combining labor and cultural history with visual culture studies, he chronicles a heated contest to define Pittsburgh's essential character at the turn of the twentieth century, and he describes how that contest was conducted largely through the production of competing images.

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