The Laborer's Two Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Laborer's Two Bodies write by K. Robertson. This book was released on 2016-04-30. The Laborer's Two Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an exploration the intellectual consequences of one of the most fundamental shifts in late medieval English society: the first national labour regulation in the wake of the 1348 plague. Bridging the medieval and early modern periods, this book analyzes a wide range of texts and images produced in this initial period of labour regulation.
Markets and Bodies
Markets and Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Markets and Bodies write by Eileen M. Otis. This book was released on 2011-12-07. Markets and Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations. Examining how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China, Markets and Bodies reveals the forms of social inequality produced by shifts in the economy. No longer working for the common good as defined by the socialist state, service workers are catering to the individual desires of consumers. This economic transition ultimately affords a unique opportunity to investigate the possibilities and current limits for better working conditions for the young women who are enabling the development of capitalism in China.
Bodies of Work
Bodies of Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies of Work write by Edward Slavishak. This book was released on 2008-09-16. Bodies of Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh’s major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple often contradictory narratives about strength and vulnerability, mastery and exploitation. In Bodies of Work, Edward Slavishak explores how Pittsburgh and the working body were symbolically linked in civic celebrations, the research of social scientists, the criticisms of labor reformers, advertisements, and workers’ self-representations. Combining labor and cultural history with visual culture studies, he chronicles a heated contest to define Pittsburgh’s essential character at the turn of the twentieth century, and he describes how that contest was conducted largely through the production of competing images. Slavishak focuses on the workers whose bodies came to epitomize Pittsburgh, the men engaged in the arduous physical labor demanded by the city’s metals, glass, and coal industries. At the same time, he emphasizes how conceptions of Pittsburgh as quintessentially male limited representations of women in the industrial workplace. The threat of injury or violence loomed large for industrial workers at the turn of the twentieth century, and it recurs throughout Bodies of Work: in the marketing of artificial limbs, statistical assessments of the physical toll of industrial capitalism, clashes between labor and management, the introduction of workplace safety procedures, and the development of a statewide workmen’s compensation system.
The Middle Ages at Work
The Middle Ages at Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Middle Ages at Work write by K. Robertson. This book was released on 2016-04-30. The Middle Ages at Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labour and capital. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labour was treated in the medieval period. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labour and medieval theories and practices of labour.
The King's Two Bodies
The King's Two Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The King's Two Bodies write by Ernst H. Kantorowicz. This book was released on 1981. The King's Two Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
