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Unfair Labor? - American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (Hardcover)
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Unfair Labor? - American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (Hardcover)
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Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of
Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World's Columbian
Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal
economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal
members were desperate to find ways to support their families and
control their own labor. As U.S. federal policies stymied economic
development in tribal communities, individual Indians found
creative new ways to make a living by participating in the cash
economy. Before and during the exposition, American Indians played
an astonishingly broad role in both the creation and the collection
of materials for the fair, and in a variety of jobs on and off the
fairgrounds. While anthropologists portrayed Indians as a
remembrance of the past, the hundreds of Native Americans who
participated were carving out new economic pathways. Unfair Labor?
breaks new ground by telling the stories of individual laborers at
the fair, uncovering the roles that Indians played in the changing
economic conditions of tribal peoples, and redefining their place
in the American socioeconomic landscape.
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