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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sean P Holmes |
ISBN: | 9780252037481 0252037480 9780252094682 0252094689 |
OCLC Number: | 856798522 |
Description: | x, 222 Seiten : Illustrationen |
Responsibility: | Sean P. Holmes. |
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"By tracing the contentious relationship between theatre managers and actors in the early 1900s, examining the performative elements of the actors' strike in 1919, and investigating the failure of the AEA to claim a stake in Hollywood, Holmes plots an engaging historical analysis that offers thorough detail and compelling examples."--Journal of American Culture "The stage has long been recognized as a site of consumption and of battles over the moral order. But Sean P. Holmes reminds us that it was also a workplace... A substantial contribution to the historiography of the Progressive Era and the 1920s."--H-Net Reviews "A very rich study... For labor educators and union organizers, Holmes' excellent book could be used to begin new conversations about how to connect creativity to labor action."--Labor Studies Journal "Sean P. Holmes spins a lively, well-researched yarn about how actors decided to take matters into their own hands, giving birth to the union that survives today: Actors' Equity Association (AEA). . . . a clear and smart study."--Labour/Le Travail "With his attention to actors as both producers and embodiments of what they produce, the unique gender dynamics of theater as workplace, and the structure of the theater industry, Holmes has done a great job of writing the history of a union that challenges conventional labor history understandings of unionism and extends the scope of American theater history."--Journal of American History "The book entertains as much as it educates. . . . a superlative read."--Journal of American Studies Read more...


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