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Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work
Janet Zandy
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Description for Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work
Paperback. In linking forms of cultural expression to labour, occupational injuries and deaths, this title centres what is usualyy decentred - the complex culture of working class people. Num Pages: 240 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSC; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 426.
What are two hands worth?
In linking forms of cultural expression to labor, occupational injuries, and deaths, Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work centers what is usually decentered--the complex culture of working-class people. Janet Zandy begins by examining the literal loss of lives to unsafe jobs and occupational hazards. She asks critical and timely questions about worker representation--who speaks for employees when the mills, mines, factories, and even white-collar cubicles shut down? She presents the voices of working-class writers and artists, and discusses their contribution to knowledge and culture.
This innovative study reveals the flesh and bone beneath the ... Read more
What are two hands worth?
In linking forms of cultural expression to labor, occupational injuries, and deaths, Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work centers what is usually decentered--the complex culture of working-class people. Janet Zandy begins by examining the literal loss of lives to unsafe jobs and occupational hazards. She asks critical and timely questions about worker representation--who speaks for employees when the mills, mines, factories, and even white-collar cubicles shut down? She presents the voices of working-class writers and artists, and discusses their contribution to knowledge and culture.
This innovative study reveals the flesh and bone beneath the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813534350
SKU
V9780813534350
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Janet Zandy
Janet Zandy is a professor of language and literature at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author of Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writing, Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness, and What We Hold in Common: An Introduction to Working-Class Studies.
Reviews for Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work
Zandy takes her subject-the living, writing, and teaching of the American working-class experience-deeply into a regrettably obscure area of cultural studies, one which she is eminently able to treat.
Martha Banta
author of Barbaric Intercourse: Caricature and the Culture of Conduct
Janet Zandy's Hands puts critical studies of the human body into creative synergy with the so-far ... Read more
Martha Banta
author of Barbaric Intercourse: Caricature and the Culture of Conduct
Janet Zandy's Hands puts critical studies of the human body into creative synergy with the so-far ... Read more