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The changing landscape of labor : American workers and workplaces

Title
The changing landscape of labor : American workers and workplaces / photographs by Michael Jacobson-Hardy ; essays by John T. Cumbler and Robert E. Weir ; foreword by Bruce Laurie.
Author
Jacobson-Hardy, Michael, 1951-
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Cumbler, John T.
  • Weir, Robert E., 1952-
Description
xii, 153 pages : illustrations; 23 x 29 cm
Summary
  • The book documents, through photographs and words, the changing world of manual labor in late twentieth-century New England. In addition to depicting the physical environment in which industrial production occurs, the volume gives visibility and voice to the workers themselves - the women and men whose lives have been affected most directly by recent social and economic transformations. Although the focus is on New England, the issues addressed are relevant to the United States as a whole.
  • The Changing Landscape of Labor features more than fifty black-and-white photographs contrasting the work environments of such traditional industries as paper and textile mills, foundries, and shipyards with such newer, high-technology industries as computer manufacturing and aircraft production. Accompanying these images are excerpts from interviews with workers.
  • Essays on the process of deindustrialization and the tradition of documentary photography place the photographs and personal testimony in a broader historical and cultural context.
Subject
  • Labor > New England > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
  • Manual work > New England > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
  • Working class > New England > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
  • Factories > New England > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
  • Documentary photography > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / Bruce Laurie -- From Bolts of Cotton to Hamburgers: The Deindustrialization of New England / John T. Cumbler -- Objectivities and Subjectivities: The Ambiguities of Documentary Photography / Robert E. Weir -- Photographs and Interviews with Industrial Workers / Michael Jacobson-Hardy.
ISBN
087023983X
LCCN
95017443
OCLC
ocm32469332
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries