The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s

by Mark Franko

Book Overview

Explores the complex relationship between dance, work and labor in the 1930s.

In this insightful new book, Mark Franko explores the many genres of theatrical dancing during the radical decade of the 1930s and their relationship to labor movements, including Fordist and unionist organizational structures, the administrative structures of the Federal Dance and Theatre Project, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819565539
• ISBN13: 9780819565532
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher