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Sweatshop - The History of an American Idea (Paperback)
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Sweatshop - The History of an American Idea (Paperback)
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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. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that policymakers
are concerned with, nor intending to provide a strict historical
chronology, this unique book shows, rather, how the ""real"
sweatshop has become intertwined with the ""invented" sweatshop of
our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth
has endowed American sweatshops with rich and complex cultural
meaning. Hapke uncovers a wide variety of tales and images that
writers, artists, social scientists, reformers, and workers
themselves have told about ""the shop." Adding an important
perspective to historical and economic approaches, Sweatshop draws
on sources from antebellum journalism, Progressive era surveys,
modern movies, and anti-sweatshop websites. Illustrated chapters
detail how the shop has been a facilitator of assimilation, a
promoter of upward mobility, the epitome of exploitation, a site of
ethnic memory, a venue for political protest, and an expression of
twentieth-century managerial narratives. An important contribution
to the real and imagined history of garment industry exploitation,
this book provides a valuable new context for understanding
contemporary sweatshops that now represent the worst expression of
an unregulated global economy.
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