Sweatshop [electronic resource] : the history of an American idea / Laura Hapke.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.Description: ix, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 331.25 22
LOC classification:
  • HD2339.U6 H37 2004eb
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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