Sweatshop : the history of an American idea

Sweatshop : the history of an American idea / Laura Hapke.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hapke, Laura (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Sweatshops > United States > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Sweatshops
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Narrating the shop
  • A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop
  • Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond
  • Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression
  • The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art
  • Spinning the shop
  • Spinning the new shop: El Monte and the Smithsonian furor
  • Nike's sweatshop quandary and the industrial sublime
  • Watching out for the shop.

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