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Crises (Economie) in de literatuur --- Crises économiques dans la littérature --- Depressions in literature --- Travail dans la littérature --- Werk in de literatuur --- Women employees in literature --- Work in literature --- American fiction --- Women --- Women and literature --- Roman américain --- Femmes --- Femmes et littérature --- Personnel féminin dans la littérature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Employment --- Historiography --- History --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- Travail --- Historiographie --- Histoire --- Roman américain --- Femmes et littérature --- Personnel féminin dans la littérature --- Travail dans la littérature --- Femmes écrivains --- 20th century --- United States
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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 “real” sweatshop has become intertwined with the “invented” sweatshop of our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth has endowed American sweatshops with rich and complex cultural meaning. Hapke uncovers a wide variety of tales and images that writers, artists, social scientists, reformers, and workers themselves have told about “the shop.” Adding an important perspective to historical and economic approaches, Sweatshop draws on sources from antebellum journalism, Progressive era surveys, modern movies, and anti-sweatshop websites. Illustrated chapters detail how the shop has been a facilitator of assimilation, a promoter of upward mobility, the epitome of exploitation, a site of ethnic memory, a venue for political protest, and an expression of twentieth-century managerial narratives. An important contribution to the real and imagined history of garment industry exploitation, this book provides a valuable new context for understanding contemporary sweatshops that now represent the worst expression of an unregulated global economy.
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Working class in art. --- Art, American --- Working class --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Art, Modern --- Chicago Imagists (Group of artists) --- Figuration libre (Group of artists) --- Fort Worth Circle (Group of artists) --- Hairy Who (Group of artists) --- Monster Roster (Group of artists) --- Philadelphia Ten (Group of artists) --- Pictures Generation (Group of artists) --- Labor and laboring classes in art --- Social conditions. --- Employment --- Federal Art Project --- United States. --- Federal Art Project (U.S.) --- History.
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A Class of Its Own positions important and rediscovered American social protest authors Otherin both a scholarly and student-centered context. The volume draws on the expertise and pedagogy of established and younger scholars who move gracefully from theories of what makes a text "working class" to how studies of class empower college teachers and courses. Among the authors discussed in the volume's essays and prominent in the book's syllabi section are Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Agnes...
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