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 inThe Journal of American History Vol. 96; no. 2; p. 577
Main Author Taillon, Paul Michel
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Organization of American Historians 01.09.2009
Subjects
Logic
Nonfiction
Workers
New Zealand
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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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.
ISSN:0021-8723
1945-2314
DOI:10.1093/jahist/96.2.577