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Sweated Work, Weak Bodies

Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor

By: Daniel E. Bender

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Sweated Work, Weak Bodies

Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor

By: Daniel E. Bender

In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants labored in New Yorks 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.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813542553

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9780813542553

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

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The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

Part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, this book investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. Acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade to Warsaw to New York to discover which stories of the Jewish experience get told and which get silenced.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813596068

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City Folk

English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

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City Folk

English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition and rehearsed its steps. In City Folk, Daniel J. Walkowitz argues that the history of country and folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political liberalism and the ‘old left.’ He situates folk dancing within surprisingly diverse contexts, from progressive era reform, and playground and school movements, to the changes in consumer culture, and the project of a modernizing, cosmopolitan middle class society. Tracing the spread of folk dancing, with particular emphases on English Country Dance, International Folk Dance, and Contra, Walkowitz connects the history of folk dance to social and international political influences in America. Through archival research, oral histories, and ethnography of dance communities, City Folk allows dancers and dancing bodies to speak. From the norms of the first half of the century, marked strongly by Anglo-Saxon traditions, to the Cold War nationalism of the post-war era, and finally on to the counterculture movements of the 1970s, City Folk injects the riveting history of folk dance in the middle of the story of modern America.

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NYU Press

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1479890359

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9781479890354

Working with Class

Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

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Working with Class

Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

Polls tell us that most Americans--whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year--think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel Walkowitz approaches the question of what it means to be middle class from an innovative angle. Focusing on the history of social workers--who daily patrol the boundaries of class--he examines the changed and contested meaning of the term over the last one hundred years. Walkowitz uses the study of social workers to explore the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender with class. He examines the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work and looks at how a paradigmatic conflict between blacks and Jews in New York City during the 1960s shaped late-twentieth-century social policy concerning work, opportunity, and entitlements. In all, this is a story about the ways race and gender divisions in American society have underlain the confusion about the identity and role of the middle class.

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UNC Press Books

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0807861200

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9780807861202

Workers of the Donbass Speak

Survival and Identity in the New Ukraine, 1989-1992

By: Lewis H. Siegelbaum,Daniel J. Walkowitz

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Workers of the Donbass Speak

Survival and Identity in the New Ukraine, 1989-1992

By: Lewis H. Siegelbaum,Daniel J. Walkowitz

In July 1989 coal miners throughout the Soviet Union engaged in a massive strike that briefly captured world headlines and inaugurated a movement of strike committees that persisted across the Soviet/post-Soviet divide. In this collection of interviews and essays based on encounters over a three-year period, the voices of industrial workers and their families in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, the coal capital of the Donbass, are heard. The stories collected here allow Western readers to "hear" these people describe their struggles for survival and identity in conditions of economic, political and social disintegration/transformation; and to analyze their testimonies and other kinds of texts in terms of changing meanings of work, gender, and national identity. Included are an examination of the "older generation" that came of age during the Stalin era; an analysis of the miners' movement and the trade union politics that emerged out of the strike of 1989; and a focus on the social crises and cultural disorientations accompanying Ukrainian independence.

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State University of New York Press

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1438419961

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The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861

By: Jonathan Daniel Wells

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The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861

By: Jonathan Daniel Wells

With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class--including merchants, doctors, and teachers--that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery, and the coming of the Civil War. Wells shows that the growth of the periodical press after 1820 helped build a cultural bridge between the North and the South, and the emerging southern middle class seized upon northern middle-class ideas about gender roles and reform, politics, and the virtues of modernization. Even as it sought to emulate northern progress, however, the southern middle class never abandoned its attachment to slavery. By the 1850s, Wells argues, the prospect of industrial slavery in the South threatened northern capital and labor, causing sectional relations to shift from cooperative to competitive. Rather than simply pitting a backward, slave-labor, agrarian South against a progressive, free-labor, industrial North, Wells argues that the Civil War reflected a more complex interplay of economic and cultural values.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876291

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Lawyers Against Labor

From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism

By: Daniel R. Ernst

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Lawyers Against Labor

From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism

By: Daniel R. Ernst

A major revision of the history of labor law in the United States in the early twentieth century, "Lawyers against Labor" goes beyond legal issues to consider cultural, political, and industrial history as well. In the first full treatment of the turn-of-the-century American Anti-Boycott Association(AABA), Daniel Ernst ably leads the reader through a compelling story of business and politics. The AABA was an organization of small- to medium-sized employers whose staff litigated and lobbied against organized labor. Ernst captures in depth the characters involved, bringing them to life with a writer's eye and a touch of wit. As he examines the AABA at work to combat trade unions through the courts, he introduces its most notable leaders, Daniel Davenport and Walter Gordon Merritt - who personified the opposing points of view - and shows how pluralism had won itself a place in the legal, academic, political, corporate, and even trade-union worlds long before the New Deal.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252065123

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9780252065125

Disruption in Detroit

Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom

By: Daniel J. Clark

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Disruption in Detroit

Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom

By: Daniel J. Clark

It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by interviewing dozens of former autoworkers in the Detroit area and found a different story--one of economic insecurity caused by frequent layoffs, unrealized contract provisions, and indispensable second jobs. Disruption in Detroit is a vivid portrait of workers and an industry that experienced anything but stable prosperity. As Clark reveals, the myths--whether of rising incomes or hard-nosed union bargaining success--came later. In the 1950s, ordinary autoworkers, union leaders, and auto company executives recognized that although jobs in their industry paid high wages, they were far from steady and often impossible to find.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050754

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9780252050756

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

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Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

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Book's by Daniel J. Walkowitz

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

City Folk

City Folk

Working with Class

Working with Class

Workers of the Donbass Speak

Workers of the Donbass Speak

The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861

The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861

Lawyers Against Labor

Lawyers Against Labor

Disruption in Detroit

Disruption in Detroit

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World

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