Sweated Work, Weak Bodies
Title | Sweated Work, Weak Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel E. Bender |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2004-01-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0813542553 |
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 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. 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.
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor (History E-book Project)
Title | Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor (History E-book Project) PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel E. Bender |
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ISBN | 9780691095004 |
Making the Empire Work
Title | Making the Empire Work PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel E. Bender |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2015-07-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1479893226 |
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
Sweatshop USA
Title | Sweatshop USA PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel E. Bender |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2013-10-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136064028 |
For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sweatshop is reviled as emblematic of the abuses of an unregulated global economy. This collection unites some of the best recent work in the interdisciplinary field of sweatshop studies. It examines changing understandings of the roots and problems of the sweatshop, and explores how the history of the American sweatshop is inexorably intertwined with global migration of capital, labor, ideas and goods. The American sweatshop may be located abroad but remains bound to the United States through ties of fashion, politics, labor and economics. The global character of the American sweatshop has presented a barrier to unionization and regulation. Anti-sweatshop campaigns have often focused on local organizing and national regulation while the sweatshop remains global. Thus, the epitaph for the sweatshop has frequently been written and re-written by unionists, reformers, activists and politicians. So, too, have they mourned its return.
Sweatshop
Title | Sweatshop PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Hapke |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813534671 |
Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories told. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that policymakers are concerned with, nor intending to provide a strict historical chronology, this unique book shows, rather, how the "real" sweatshop has become intertwined with the "invented" sweatshop of our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth has endowed American sweatshops with rich and complex cultural meaning. Hapke uncovers a wide variety of tales and images that writers, artists, social scientists, reformers, and workers themselves have told about "the shop." Adding an important perspective to historical and economic approaches, Sweatshop draws on sources from antebellum journalism, Progressive era surveys, modern movies, and anti-sweatshop websites. Illustrated chapters detail how the shop has been a facilitator of assimilation, a promoter of upward mobility, the epitome of exploitation, a site of ethnic memory, a venue for political protest, and an expression of twentieth-century managerial narratives. An important contribution to the real and imagined history of garment industry exploitation, this book provides a valuable new context for understanding contemporary sweatshops that now represent the worst expression of an unregulated global economy.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Title | The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Marsico |
Publisher | Marshall Cavendish |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2010-01-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780761446576 |
Provides comprehensive information on industry and immigration, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, its aftermath, and labor rights.
OAH Newsletter
Title | OAH Newsletter PDF eBook |
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Pages | 414 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | United States |
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