Sweatshop by Laura Hapke
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.
Adding a critical new perspective to existing political, social, and economic histories, Laura Hapke has crafted a book on the sweatshops of our imaginationHers is an important project precisely because this particular space for the production of goods carries extensive symbolic and political weight. -- Eileen Boris * University of California, Santa Barbara *
Sweatshop is a wholly unique, compelling, and marvelous survey of one hundred and fifty years in the narration of sweatshop experiences in prose and graphic art. Laura Hapke once again astonishes the reader with her salutary blend of historically-based interdisciplinary scholarship and wide-ranging references that treat ideology, gender, and ethnicity with appropriate clarity and sophistication. -- Alan Wald * Professor of English and American culture, University of Michigan; author of Exi *
A scholar of the sweatshop, Laura Hapke expands the boundaries of cultural studies while never losing sight of the worker behind the machine. -- Janet Zandy * author of Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work *
Sweatshop is a wholly unique, compelling, and marvelous survey of one hundred and fifty years in the narration of sweatshop experiences in prose and graphic art. Laura Hapke once again astonishes the reader with her salutary blend of historically-based interdisciplinary scholarship and wide-ranging references that treat ideology, gender, and ethnicity with appropriate clarity and sophistication. -- Alan Wald * Professor of English and American culture, University of Michigan; author of Exi *
A scholar of the sweatshop, Laura Hapke expands the boundaries of cultural studies while never losing sight of the worker behind the machine. -- Janet Zandy * author of Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work *
Laura Hapke teaches at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. She has published widely in American/labor/cultural studies. Her most recent book is Labor's Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s. Lisa A. Kirby is an Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan College. Her areas of specialization include working-class literature, women's studies, and 20th-century American literature. Her work has appeared recently in Philip Roth Studies, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Academic Exchange Quarterly.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813534671 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813534674 |
| Title | Sweatshop |
| Author | Laura Hapke |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
| Year published | 2004-07-29 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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