Hands

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Pub. Date: 2004-07-01
Publisher(s): Rutgers Univ Pr
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Author Biography

Janet Zandy is Professor of Language and Literature at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Prologue : the epistemology of the hand
How much are two hands worth?p. 7
Loss : circumstances and choicesp. 11
Trubeck labsp. 13
Books of the deadp. 22
God jobp. 36
Workers Memorial Day : April 28p. 50
Articulations : culture is not negationp. 61
Worker writers : where do you keep your writing?p. 63
In the skin of a worker; or, what makes a text working class?p. 84
Worker ghostsp. 94
Recoveries : useable pastsp. 123
Fire poetry on the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of March 25, 1911p. 125
Stillness, motion, bodies, and possibilities for working-class studiesp. 144
Ralph Fasanella : epic painter of the working classp. 157
Technologies : on laboring bodiesp. 171
Preface : the prison tourp. 173
Technological speedp. 175
Industrial toursp. 179
The amputationp. 185
Blind spotsp. 189
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