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Todd Carmody explores how the idea that work is inherently meaningful was reinforced and tasked to those who lived on the margins and needed assistance during nineteenth-century America.

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"Work Requirements is a creative, persuasive, and well-crafted analysis of the representational labor undergirding our “work society”. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to contest this mode of social organization." -- Karen M. Tani * International Journal of Social History *

Table of Contents
Introduction. Signs Taken for Work 1
1. The Pensioner’s Claim 33
2. The Beggar’s Case 74
3. The Work of the Image 119
4. Institutional Rhythms 172
Coda. Remaking Reciprocity 214
Acknowledgments 221
Notes 225
Bibliography 289
Index 315

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 5 August 2022
      ISBN-13 9781478015444
      978-1478015444
      ISBN-10 1478015446
      Also in:
      Social and cultural history Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Todd Carmody explores how the idea that work is inherently meaningful was reinforced and tasked to those who lived on the margins and needed assistance during nineteenth-century America.

      Trade Review
      "Work Requirements is a creative, persuasive, and well-crafted analysis of the representational labor undergirding our “work society”. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to contest this mode of social organization." -- Karen M. Tani * International Journal of Social History *

      Table of Contents
      Introduction. Signs Taken for Work 1
      1. The Pensioner’s Claim 33
      2. The Beggar’s Case 74
      3. The Work of the Image 119
      4. Institutional Rhythms 172
      Coda. Remaking Reciprocity 214
      Acknowledgments 221
      Notes 225
      Bibliography 289
      Index 315

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