On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms - Softcover

Akou, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350349429 ISBN 13: 9781350349421

Verlag: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025

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Explores a key entanglement in US history: the rise of service-industry jobs and concurrent rise in mass-produced clothing, which has resulted in standardized 'looks' for many occupations.

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Heather Akou is Associate Professor of Fashion Design at Indiana University and a historian of fashion, dress, and the body. Her work has overlapped with African Studies, Islamic Studies, and American Studies, with recent publications on working-class histories of dress including prison uniforms, political t-shirts, secret society regalia, and work uniforms.

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Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States. It highlights how the uniform business is distinct from the fashion business, including how manufacturing developed outside of the typical fashion hubs such as New York City; and gives attention to the ways that various ty

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1350349429
• ISBN 13: 9781350349421
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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