Hapke, Laura.

Sweatshop the history of an American idea / [electronic resource] : Laura Hapke. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004. - ix, 202 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Sweatshops--History.--United States


Electronic books.

HD2339.U6 / H37 2004

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