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Bodies of work : civic display and labor in industrial Pittsburgh
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- Creator
- Edward Slavishak
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008
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- Physical Details
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- x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0822342251, 9780822389347, 0822342065, 0822389347, 9780822342069, 9780822342250
- OCLC
- on1224279585, ocn308677467, ocn209335239
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-343) and index.
- The magic of the nineteenth century: industrial change and work in Pittsburgh -- Working-class muscle in the battle of homestead -- The working body as a civic image -- The Pittsburgh survey and the body as evidence -- "Delicately built": the "problem" of working women in Pittsburgh -- Hiding and displaying the broken body -- Epilogue: "That's work, and that's what people like to watch!"