Sweatshop : the history of an American idea /

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Author / Creator:	Hapke, Laura, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 202 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Sweatshops -- United States -- History. Sweatshops. United States. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11133406

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ISBN:	081353710X 9780813537108 0813534666 9780813534664 0813534674 9780813534671 9780813542560 0813542561 1283592029 9781283592024 9786613904478 6613904473
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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 a.
Other form:	Print version: Hapke, Laura. Sweatshop. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004 0813534666 0813534674
Standard no.:	10.36019/9780813542560

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