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Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show: Working Class in American History

Autor Andrea Ringer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iul 2024
From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and the traditional and nontraditional laborers who created it. Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work.
Illuminating and vivid, Circus World delves into the gender, class, and even species concerns within an extinct way of life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780252087967
ISBN-10: 0252087968
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 26 black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Working Class in American History


Recenzii

“Ringer’s approach to circus history centering the labor of transnational adults, children, and animals is both entirely original and deeply important. Circus World points the way to a new and more expansive kind of labor history.”--Jeremy Zallen, author of American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light 1750–1865

Notă biografică

Andrea Ringer is an assistant professor of history at Tennessee State University.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction  The Circus World in the Golden Age
Part I: The Circus Migrant
  1. Making Circus Day
  2. Human and Animal Circus Workers and Their Knowledge Networks
Part II: The Circus Lot
  1. Women’s Work and Gendered Circus Labor in the Tented Shows
  2. Animal Motherhood and (Re)Constructed Circus Families
  3. Captive, Coerced, and Frontline Sideshow Workers
Part III: The Circus World from the Outside
  1. The Circus as Big Business
  2. The Making of the Circus Celebrity
  3. Organized Circus Labor and Working-Class Audiences
Conclusion    Circus Afterlives
Notes
Index