{"product_id":"unfair-labor-9781496234728","title":"Unfair Labor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago.By the late nineteenth century, tribal economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal members were desperate to find ways to support their families and control their own labor. As U.S. federal policies stymied economic development in tribal communities, individual Indians found creative new ways to make a living by participating in the cash economy. Before and during the exposition, American Indians played an astonishingly broad role in both the creation and the collection of materials for the fair, and in a variety of jobs on and off the fairgrounds.    While anthropologists portrayed Indians as a remembrance of the past, the hundreds of Native Americans who participated were carving out new economic pathways. Once the fair opened, Indians from tribes across the United States, as well as other indigenous people, f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beck has given us a master class in historical research and interpretation. Drawing on an impressive array of previously unseen sources . . . he has assembled a picture of Indian-white interactions that, while notably unequal, nonetheless display Native American agency and determination in numerous directions. . . . Beck has done signal service in exposing the grounded reality of Indian-white economic relations at the height of the Gilded Age. It is not a pretty picture.”—Curtis M. Hinsley,  \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an important and deeply researched contribution and recommended reading for social and labor historians as well as those in Native history.\"—Julie Guard, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book will be of interest to specialists in the field of Native American studies. There is no other in-depth study of the Native Americans in this significant fair, and some labor historians will welcome the consideration of the commodification of labor in these tribes and its limits. It is a fresh way of thinking about this moment.\"—Rosemary Feurer, \u003ci\u003eNebraska History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beck details the ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit that Indigenous people brought to Chicago—and took home—in the 1890s.\"—Katrina Phillips, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a revealing glimpse into such pioneers of American anthropology as Frederic Putnam, Franz Boas, and James Mooney. Undergraduate seminars will be well served with this volume as required reading, and even interested general readers will find it informative.\"—J.H. O’Donnell, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnfair Labor?\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to indigenous labor history, as well as to the history of world’s fairs.\"—Abigail Markwyn, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnfair Labor\u003c\/i\u003e is the most thorough analysis we have of Native Americans’ involvement with the 1893 fair.\"—Robert W. Rydell, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Arizona History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnfair Labor?\u003c\/i\u003e is captivating, well researched, and clearly written. It would be an excellent resource for a variety of upper-secondary and college-level history and American studies courses that cover labor, capitalism, material culture, public history, American Indians, or social forces, to name a few. The book would be a welcome addition to both public and academic libraries alike.\"—Julie Hawks, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beck, a seasoned historian with a reputation for lucid prose, is modeling . . . a scholarly generosity that tacitly acknowledges how historical knowledge is built, distributed, absorbed, and remade. A meaningful addition to Beck’s body of work and the University of Nebraska Press’s noteworthy catalogue of Native American and Indigenous studies titles, \u003ci\u003eUnfair Labor?\u003c\/i\u003e demystifies, nuances, and legitimizes American Indians’ participation in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.”—Meredith Conti, \u003ci\u003eTheatre History Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnfair Labor?\u003c\/i\u003e is a carefully organized, argued, and focused contribution to Indigenous labor history. Beck takes good advantage of the vast archival resources related to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to generate a wide-angle snapshot of Indigenous people's efforts to navigate the ethnographic and performative income opportunities that arose under late nineteenth-century colonialism's sustained assimilationist assault.\"—Paige Raibmon, \u003ci\u003eNative American and Indigenous Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Overview: American Indians and Ethnology at the Fair\u003cbr\u003e 1. Fair Representation?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Evolution of the American Indian Displays at the Fair\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Before the Fair: Making Money at Home\u003cbr\u003e 3. Native People Collecting for the Fair\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Department of Ethnology Collecting for the Fair\u003cbr\u003e 5. Government Agencies Collecting for the Fair\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. During the Fair: Working in Chicago\u003cbr\u003e 6. Working the Anthropological and Education Displays\u003cbr\u003e 7. Working the Commercial Displays\u003cbr\u003e 8. Those Left Out\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\/Afterward: American Indians and Their New World\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409244004695,"sku":"9781496234728","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496234728.jpg?v=1730506118","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unfair-labor-9781496234728","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}