Daniel E Bender

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies

Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor

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Produktbeschreibung

In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants labored in New York's Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that came to be seen as among the worst examples of Progressive Era American industrialization. Although reformers agreed that these unsafe workplaces must be abolished, their reasons have seldom been fully examined. Sweated Work, Weak Bodies is the first book on the origins of sweatshops, exploring how they came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration. It is an innovative study of the language used to define the sweatshop, how these definitions shaped the first anti-sweatshop campaign, and how they continue to influence our current understanding of the sweatshop. This study links social, political, medical, and cultural histories of the Gilded Age/Progressive Era. Daniel E. Bender explores anxiety over the effects of immigration and industrialization, in particular the racial denegation of immigrants, the spread of diseases, and the breakdown of working-class families. He demonstrates the ways social reformers and public health officials saw the sweatshop as a reflection of Jewish racial inferiority, and how women's participation in anti-sweatshop campaigns that sought, above all, to protect male workers, depended on the ideas of the naturalness of sexual differences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780813533384
• ISBN-10: 0813533384
• Artikelnr.: 22166341

Autorenporträt

Bender, Daniel E.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in
Progressive America
Chapter 1: Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment
Economy
Chapter 2: "The Great Jewish Me¿tier" Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers,
and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880-1910
Chapter 3: "A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral" Sweatshop Danger and
Labor in the Home, 1890-1910
Chapter 4: Workers Made Well Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop,
1910-1930
Part II: Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop
Campaign
Chapter 5: Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker
Question, 1880-1909
Chapter 6: Inspecting Bodies: Sexual Difference and Strategies of
Organizing, 1910-1930
Chapter 7: "Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity": Factionalism and Gender
Struggles in the ILGWU, 1909-1934
Conclusion: "Our Marching Orders... Advance toward the Goal of Industrial
Decency": Measuring the Burden of Language
Epilogue: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century
Notes 
Index