| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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 and amp;ldquo;real and amp;rdquo; sweatshop has become intertwined with the and amp;ldquo;invented and amp;rdquo; sweatshop of our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth has endowed American sweatshops with rich a. |
| Subject |
Sweatshops -- United States -- History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Sweatshops. (OCoLC)fst01139991
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi. |
| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hapke, Laura. Sweatshop. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004 0813534666 0813534674 (DLC) 2004000296 (OCoLC)54029506 |
| ISBN |
081353710X (electronic bk.) |
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9780813537108 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813542560 (electronic bk.) |
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0813542561 (electronic bk.) |
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