Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor.(Book Review)

From: American Jewish History | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Argersinger, Jo Ann E. | Copyright information

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. By Daniel E. Bender. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 272. pp.

For Daniel Bender, the identification of--and opposition to--sweatshops in the U.S. resulted from a complex interaction of concerns about immigration and disease, gender and women workers, and space between the home and the factory. In examining the origins of sweatshops in late-nineteenth-century New York City, ...

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