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Sweated work, weak bodies: anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor
Daniel E. Bender
Year: 2005, c2004.
Publisher:  Rutgers University Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Language and the Limits of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing
[Intro]
Industrialization, Anxiety, and the Sweatshop
Language and Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns
Part I: Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in Progressive America
[Intro]
One: Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy
[Intro]
From the Garment Industry in Europe to the Garment Industry in America
Fashion, Technology, and the Transformation of New York Garment Manufacture, 1880-1910
The Lower East Side, Jewish Poverty, Race, and Progressive Reform
Two: "The Great Jewish Métier": Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880-1910
[Intro]
Inspecting the Sweatshop
Defining the Sweatshop
Race, Civilization, and Defining the Sweatshop Danger
Immigrant Bodies at Work
Three: "A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral": Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890-1910
[Intro]
The Gendered Danger of the Sweatshop
Inspecting Home and Work
Gendering Jewish Homework
Regulating Homework, Organizing Workers, and Restricting Women's Labor
Four: Workers Made Well: Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910-1930
[Intro]
Reforming the Workshop, Eliminating Homework
The JBSC and Inspection as Organizing
Homework, Gender, and the "Sanitary Millennium"
The Sweatshop in Workers' Self-History
Part II: Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
[Intro]
Five: Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker Question, 1880-1909
[Intro]
The Social Construction of Skill and Workplace Masculinity
Marriage and Women's Workplace Legitimacy
Sexualizing the Workplace
Women Strikers in a Men's Union, 1909-1913
Girl Strikers, Women Workers, Ladies, and Sweatshop Victims
Shop Girl to Working Woman
Six: Inspecting Bodies: Sexual Difference and Strategies of Organizing, 1910-1930
[Intro]
New Power and New Visions of Curing
Gendering the Workers' Body and the Representation of Occupational Illness
The "Organization of Happiness" and the Curing Debate
Gendering Work, Gendering Curing
"The Interdependence of Health and a Strong Trade Union"
Seven: "Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity": Factionalism and Gender Struggles in the ILGWU, 1909-1934
[Intro]
From Female Worker to Female Unionist, 1909-1913
The Women's Opposition, 1914-1918
From a Women's to a Communist Opposition, 1917-1921
The Culture of Factionalism: The Gender-Neutral Language of Class and Democracy, 1921-1926
The Manliness of Violence and the Twilight of an Anti-Sweatshop Campaign, 1926-1934
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
Introduction: The Language and the Limits of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing
One: Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy
Two: "The Great Jewish Métier"
Three: "A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral"
Four: Workers Made Well
Five: Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives
Six: Inspecting Bodies
Seven: "Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity"
Conclusion: "Our Marching Orders . . . Advance toward the Goal of Industrial Decency"
Epilogue: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century
Index
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Title: Sweated work, weak bodies : anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor Daniel E. Bender.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005, c2004.
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Subject Headings: • Sweatshops -- United States -- History
• Alien labor -- United States -- History
• Clothing workers -- United States -- History
• Sweatshops -- United States -- Prevention -- History
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