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Sweated work, weak bodies: anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor
Daniel E. Bender
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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List of Illustrations
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction The Language and the Limits of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing
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[Intro]
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Industrialization, Anxiety, and the Sweatshop
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Language and Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns
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Part I Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in Progressive America
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[Intro]
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One Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy
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[Intro]
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From the Garment Industry in Europe to the Garment Industry in America
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Fashion, Technology, and the Transformation of New York Garment Manufacture, 1880-1910
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The Lower East Side, Jewish Poverty, Race, and Progressive Reform
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Two "The Great Jewish Métier" Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880-1910
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[Intro]
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Inspecting the Sweatshop
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Defining the Sweatshop
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Race, Civilization, and Defining the Sweatshop Danger
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Immigrant Bodies at Work
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Three "A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral" Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890-1910
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[Intro]
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The Gendered Danger of the Sweatshop
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Inspecting Home and Work
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Gendering Jewish Homework
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Regulating Homework, Organizing Workers, and Restricting Women's Labor
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Four Workers Made Well Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910-1930
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[Intro]
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Reforming the Workshop, Eliminating Homework
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The JBSC and Inspection as Organizing
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Homework, Gender, and the "Sanitary Millennium"
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The Sweatshop in Workers' Self-History
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Part II Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
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[Intro]
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Five Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker Question, 1880-1909
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[Intro]
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The Social Construction of Skill and Workplace Masculinity
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Marriage and Women's Workplace Legitimacy
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Sexualizing the Workplace
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Women Strikers in a Men's Union, 1909-1913
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Girl Strikers, Women Workers, Ladies, and Sweatshop Victims
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Shop Girl to Working Woman
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Six Inspecting Bodies Sexual Difference and Strategies of Organizing, 1910-1930
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[Intro]
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New Power and New Visions of Curing
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Gendering the Workers' Body and the Representation of Occupational Illness
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The "Organization of Happiness" and the Curing Debate
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Gendering Work, Gendering Curing
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"The Interdependence of Health and a Strong Trade Union"
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Seven "Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity" Factionalism and Gender Struggles in the ILGWU, 1909-1934
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[Intro]
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From Female Worker to Female Unionist, 1909-1913
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The Women's Opposition, 1914-1918
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From a Women's to a Communist Opposition, 1917-1921
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The Culture of Factionalism: The Gender-Neutral Language of Class and Democracy, 1921-1926
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The Manliness of Violence and the Twilight of an Anti-Sweatshop Campaign, 1926-1934
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Conclusion "Our Marching Orders . . . Advance toward the Goal of Industrial Decency" Measuring the Burden of Language
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Epilogue Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century
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Notes
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Introduction: The Language and the Limits of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing
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One Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy
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Two "The Great Jewish Métier"
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Three "A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral"
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Four Workers Made Well
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Five Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives
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Six Inspecting Bodies
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Seven "Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity"
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Conclusion: "Our Marching Orders . . . Advance toward the Goal of Industrial Decency"
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Epilogue: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century
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Index
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About the Author
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AJH | 92.1 (March 2004): 113-115 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_jewish_history/v092/92.1argersinger.html |
JSocH | 38.4 (Summer 2005): 1105-1108 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v038/38.4ross.html |
BHM | 79.3 (Fall 2005): 599-600 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v079/79.3hepler.html |
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Published: 2005
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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