Carol Quirke

Eyes on Labor

News Photograpy and America's Working Class

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eyes on Labor narrates an essential chapter in American cultural history, offering a fascinating broad-stroke history of the relationship of photography to the complex and troubled history of 20th-century labor and unionization movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199768233
• ISBN-10: 0199768234
• Artikelnr.: 35557434

Autorenporträt

Carol Quirke is Assistant Professor of American Studies at SUNY College of Old Westbury.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: "The Central Instrument of Our Time"
* 1. "The Quick Nervousness of Pictures is a New Language:" Depicting
Organized Labor Before Photojournalism
* 2. Consuming Labor: LIFE Magazine and Mass Production Unionism,
1936-1941
* 3. Bitter Kisses: Sit-down Strike at the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation, April 1937
* 4. "Strike Photos are Star Witnesses:" Photographs and Newsreels of
the Memorial Day Massacre, May 1937
* 5. Steel Labor and the United Steel Workers of America's Culture of
Constraint, 1936-1950
* 6. "This Picture Shows What We Are Fighting For:" Rank and File
Photography of New York City's Local 65, 1933-1953
* Conclusion
* Bibliography