| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. By Daniel E. Bender. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xii, 272 pp. Cloth, $62.00, ISBN 0-8135-3338-4. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-8135-3338-4.)
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies is a succinct, perceptive, and thorough history of the sweatshop in all its manifestations. Daniel E. Bender uncovers the roots of the system in the garment industry's contracting and subcontracting of its production and labor force. By the late nineteenth century Eastern European Jews in New York City, particularly the Lower East Side, were the mainstay of the work force. At first mainly men, these workers were denigrated by many Americans as an inferior and sickly "race," incapable of development.	1
By 1900 inspectors, unions, and reformers had begun to address the harsh conditions of the sweatshops, particularly women's homework. The Lower East Side ghetto tenements were often both places to live and to do homework. Significantly, as Bender indicates, the solution proposed after the 1910 strike, by labor, management, and social reformers, was the modern factory, regulated by the Joint Board of Sanitary Control (JBSC).	. . .

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