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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Race, class, gender, and defining the sweatshop and modern s hop in progressive America. Eastern European Jews and the rise of a tra nsnational garment economy ; "The great Jewish métier" : factory inspe ctors, Jewish workers, and defining the sweatshop, 1880-1910 ; "A race ignorant, miserable and immoral" : sweatshop danger and labor in the ho me, 1890-1910 ; Workers made well : home, work, homework, and the model shop, 1910-1930 -- pt. 2. Women and gender in the sweatshop and in the anti-sweatshop campaign. Gaunt men, gaunt wives : femininity, masculin ity, and the worker question, 1880-1909 ; Inspecting bodies : sexual di fference and strategies of organizing, 1910-1930 ; "Swallowed up in a s ea of masculinity" : factionalism and gender struggles in the ILGWU, 19 10-1934.

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Transcribed from: Sweated work, weak bodies : anti-sweatshop camp aigns and languages of labor / Daniel E. Bender. Rutgers, N.J. : Rut gers University Press, c2004. x, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 081353337 6 0813533384

This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Fo undation.

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