TY  - GEN
T1  - Sweatshop : the history of an American idea
A1  - Hapke, Laura
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm57663846
AB  - 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.
OP  - 202
CN  - HD2339.U6 H37 2004eb
SN  - 081353710X
SN  - 9780813537108
SN  - 0813534666
SN  - 9780813534664
SN  - 0813534674
SN  - 9780813534671
SN  - 9780813542560
SN  - 0813542561
SN  - 1283592029
SN  - 9781283592024
SN  - 9786613904478
SN  - 6613904473
KW  - Sweatshops : United States : History.
KW  - Sweating-system : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Labor.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Labor & Industrial Relations.
KW  - Sweatshops
KW  - United States
KW  - Samfundsvidenskab : Økonomi.
KW  - History
ER  -