Fw: Sweatshop project

 > ----- Forwarded message from Sherry Linkon <sjlinkon@CC.YSU.EDU> -----
> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:02:38 -0500
> From: Sherry Linkon <sjlinkon@CC.YSU.EDU>
> Reply-To: CWCS-L <CWCS-L@YSUB.YSU.EDU>
> Subject: Sweatshop project
> To: CWCS-L@YSUB.YSU.EDU
>
> AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE/CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
>
> The Sweatshop: Towards a New History of the American Sweatshop
>
> Edited by Richard A Greenwald (United States Merchant Marine Academy)
> and
> Laura Hapke (Pace University). With a forward by Daniel Walkowitz (New
> York
> University).
>
>     The United States sweatshop has been a locus of urban industrial
> life for over a century, and particular scholarly attention has been
> paid to
> sweated labor in the formation of working-class identity in the Gilded
> Age
> and Progressive Era. Yet, while the sweatshop survived well past the New
>
> Deal, this subject all but disappeared from labor history until its
> recent
> centrality to the so-called global village. Although community
> activists,
> labor unions, and groups such as Sweatshop Watch have renewed a
> reformist
> discourse on the evils of the sweatshop, there has been no corresponding
>
> historical reevaluation.
>
>        The proposed collection attempts to tap work now being done by
> labor
> and working-class history scholars in a number of timely ways. The
> essays
> to
> be collected will trace the sweatshop as "institution" and symbol.
> Explored
> too will be the political, social, economic, gendered, and cultural
> aspects
> of the sweatshop from the 1880s to the present.
>
> Those interested in participating: Please send, by March 1, 2001, a
> brief
> abstract and CV to:
> Richard A Greenwald
> US Merchant Marine Academy
> Humanities Department
> Kings Point, NY 11024
> Or email as Word Attachments to greenwaldr@usmma.edu