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Author: Carol Quirke (Assistant Professor of American Studies, Assistant Professor of American Studies, SUNY College of Old Westbury, Brooklyn, NY, United States)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 16.30cm
Weight: 0.659kg
ISBN: 9780199768226
ISBN 10: 0199768226
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 30 August 2012
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Overall, the excellent contextual material, combined with a strong conceptual perspective, and a nuanced analysis of news images, makes Eyes on Labor a must-read for researchers interested in visual communication and/or labor history. Bonnie Brennen, Journal of American Studies
<br> Carol Quirke has written a finely crafted study of the rise of photojournalism, focused on organized labor. Filled with insights, the book is based upon a nuanced reading of the visual record, including periodicals such as Life and Steel News, along with deep archival research. Eyes on Labor is a wonderful work that will interest anyone who cares about consumer culture, mass media, and labor history. --David Jaffee, visual editor of Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society<br><p><br> In displaying the shifting construction of class identity and trade unionism in mass circulation magazines, Carole Quirke brilliantly shows the political significance of visual representation in the twentieth century; working-class use of photography for self-enhancement; and the shifting public profile of the labor movement during its turbulent and institutionalizing decades, the1930s to the 1950s. This powerful and original work is cultural history at its most potent. --Eileen Boris, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State<p><br>
Quirke undertakes a remarkable task, reconstituting the excitement and effects brought by this revolution in mass culture... The case studies are diverse and entertaining...[and] Quirke's abilities in reconstructing history really shine. Reading between the lines of the text, one has the sense of the huge archival task the researcher faced in examining U.S. photographic representations of labor in the first half of the twentieth century... Eyes on Labor is a truly enjoyable journey. --Visual Studies Quirke is a skillful, nimble critic with impressive interdisciplinary chops. Eyes on Labor is, among other things, a convincing cultural history that combines a synthetic knowledge of scholarship on labor with rich archival details and case studies; an astute study of photojournalism, keyed to crucial transitions in media and photographic technology; and a compelling analysis of visual culture that offers finely tuned, if typically brief, interrogations of specific images, attending to the nuances of composition, intertextual reference, and institutional context. --caa.reviews Eyes on Labor fills a gap by analyzing this ongoing struggle, focusing on the period of unions' ascendancy from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Highly Recommended. --CHOICE Carol Quirke has written a finely crafted study of the rise of photojournalism, focused on organized labor. Filled with insights, the book is based upon a nuanced reading of the visual record, including periodicals such as Life and Steel Labor, along with deep archival research. Eyes on Labor is a wonderful work that will interest anyone who cares about consumer culture, mass media, and labor history. --David Jaffee, visual editor of Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society In displaying the shifting construction of class identity and trade unionism in mass circulation magazines, Carole Quirke brilliantly shows the political significance of v
Author Information
Carol Quirke is an Associate Professor of American Studies at SUNY Old Westbury. She has published essays and reviews in the American Quarterly, Reviews in American History, and New Labor Forum. She is a former community organizer, who worked on economic justice, immigrant rights, and public housing issues before receiving her Ph.D. in U.S. History. She has a close connection to the events described in Eyes on Labor-her grandfather was working in the Republic Steel mill when police shot strikers on Chicago's Southeast Side; her great-uncle was one of the 100 plus men, women and children who were shot by police in what is called the Memorial Day Massacre.
