Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
For reformers, especially those associated with the Pittsburgh Survey, the worker's body, mangled and disfigured by industrial accidents, exemplified "the reckless logic of industrial capitalism" (p. 265). Acknowledging the difficulties associated with accessing reception in the past,...
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Published in | The Journal of American History Vol. 96; no. 2; p. 577 |
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Format | Book Review |
Language | English |
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Oxford
Organization of American Historians
01.09.2009
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Summary: | For reformers, especially those associated with the Pittsburgh Survey, the worker's body, mangled and disfigured by industrial accidents, exemplified "the reckless logic of industrial capitalism" (p. 265). Acknowledging the difficulties associated with accessing reception in the past, Slavishak contextualizes and deconstructs discourses about workers' bodies, seeking to understand how contesting actors and discourses in the past challenged one another for significance through the manipulation of a symbol like the body. |
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ISSN: | 0021-8723 1945-2314 |
DOI: | 10.1093/jahist/96.2.577 |