Narrating the shop -- A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop -- Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond -- Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression -- The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art -- Spinning the shop -- Spinning the new...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical and Historical Scaffolding -- 3. Beginnings -- 4. Entering and Leaving -- 5. Young Philosopher -- 6. Transition -- 7. Young Economist -- 8. Working in the Field -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes --...

"Thorstein Veblen's analysis of America's parasitic upper class, which plunders its wealth from productive workers, is widely attributed to his outsider status. But Charles Camic shows that Veblen's ideas did not derive from social marginality. Veblen was a professional economist whose fierce...