Bodies of Work
Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh emerged as a major US manufacturing centre at the turn of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the workers whose bodies came to epitomize Pittsburgh: the men engaged in the arduous physical labour 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 labour and management, the introduction of workplace safety procedures, and the development of a state-wide workmen's compensation system.

Illustrations
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
1: Industrial Change and Work in Pittsburgh
2: Working-Class Muscle in the Battle of Homestead
3: The Working Body as a Civic Image
4: The Pittsburgh Survey and the Body as Evidence
5: "Delicately Built": Working Women at the Turn of the Century
6: Hiding and Displaying the Broken Body
Epilogue: "That's Work, and That's What People Want to See!" Notes
Bibliography
Index