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Author Hapke, Laura.

Title Sweatshop : the history of an American idea / Laura Hapke.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HD2339.U6 H37 2004    Available  ---
Description ix, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Narrating the shop -- A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop -- Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond -- Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression -- The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art -- Spinning the shop -- Spinning the new shop: El Monte and the Smithsonian furor -- Nike's sweatshop quandary and the industrial sublime -- Watching out for the shop.
Subject Sweatshops -- United States -- History.
Sweatshops.
United States.
History.
ISBN 0813534674 paperback alkaline paper
0813534666 hardcover alkaline paper