Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

by Edward Steven Slavishak and Edward Slavishak

By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh's major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342251
• ISBN13: 9780822342250
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.8"