Work and the Image: Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories

By Valerie Mainz

Book Overview

This title was first published in 2000. "Work and the Image" is published in two volumes. Volume I includes interdisciplinary case studies which plot the changing definitions of work as labour, craft, social relations and a source of historical identity, while analyzing the role of visual representation in their formation and transformation. The diverse essays cover such topics as anti-slavery movements and enunciation of workers' rights, revolutionary politics, relations of class and gender, industrial masculinities and women's rural sociality, unemployment and subjectivity, Stalinist aesthetics and nationalist identities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113873036X
• ISBN13: 9781138730366
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"