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Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh by Edward Slavishak (Paperback, 2008)

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By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh's major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple often contradictory narratives about strength and vulnerability, mastery and exploitation. In Bodies of Work, Edward Slavishak explores how Pittsburgh and the working body were symbolically linked in civic celebrations, the research of social scientists, the criticisms of labor reformers, advertisements, and workers' self-representations. Combining labor and cultural history with visual culture studies, he chronicles a heated contest to define Pittsburgh's essential character at the turn of the twentieth century, and he describes how that contest was conducted largely through the production of competing images.Slavishak focuses on the workers whose bodies came to epitomize Pittsburgh, the men engaged in the arduous physical labor demanded by the city's metals, glass, and coal industries. At the same time, he emphasizes how conceptions of Pittsburgh as quintessentially male limited representations of women in the industrial workplace. The threat of injury or violence loomed large for industrial workers at the turn of the twentieth century, and it recurs throughout Bodies of Work: in the marketing of artificial limbs, statistical assessments of the physical toll of industrial capitalism, clashes between labor and management, the introduction of workplace safety procedures, and the development of a statewide workmen's compensation system.

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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-13
9780822342250
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94519728

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Subject Area
Gender Issues
Author
Edward Slavishak
Publication Name
Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
156mm

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Edward Slavishak
Series Title
Body, Commodity, Text
Topic
Local History
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United States

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