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Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor

By Daniel E. Bender

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780813542553
DOI
10.36019/9780813542553
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2079340 bytes)
Pages
288\286
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 20:01:25

Description

In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants labored in New Yorks Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that came to be seen as among the worst examples of Progressive-Era American industrialization. Although reformers agreed that these unsafe workplaces must be abolished, their reasons have seldom been fully examined. Sweated Work, Weak Bodiesis the first book on the origins of sweatshops, exploring how they came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration. It is an innovative study of the language used to define the sweatshop, how these definitions shaped the first anti-sweatshop campaign, and how they continue to influence our current understanding of the sweatshop.

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