Table of contents for Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work by Janet Zandy

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Epistemology of the Hand

Introduction

How Much Are Two Hands Worth?

Loss: Circumstances and Choices

Trubeck Labs

Books of the Dead

Dialpainters

Audre Lorde, XRays, Acceptable Risks

Muriel Rukeyser, Hawk’s Nest, Silicosis

God Job

Workers Memorial Day: April 28

Articulations: Culture Is Not Negation

Worker Writers: Where Do You Keep Your Writing?

In the Skin of a Worker; or, What Makes a Text Working Class?

Worker Ghosts

Ghosted Work

Embodied Workers

Recoveries: Useable Pasts

Fire Poetry on the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911

Stillness, Motion, Bodies, and Possibilities for WorkingClass Studies

Ralph Fasanella: Epic Painter of the Working Class

Technologies: On Laboring Bodies

Preface: The Prison Tour

Zone 1: Technological Speed

Zone 2: Industrial Tours

Zone 3: The Amputation

Zone 4: Blind Spots

Notes

Index

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