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Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

Name: Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9781496234728
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Contributors:

David R. M. Beck

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Business & Economics, History

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Economic History, Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Book Topic:

American

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Release Date:

2023-06-01

ISBN 13:

9781496234728

Weight:

1.07 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 inches

Pages:

332

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Unfair 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. Unfair Labor? breaks new ground by telling the stories of individual laborers at the fair, uncovering the roles that Indians played in the changing economic conditions of tribal peoples, and redefining their place in the American socioeconomic landscape.

About the Author
David R. M. Beck is an award-winning historian and a professor in the University of Illinois Department of History. He was previously a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana for more than two decades. Beck is the author of several books, including The Struggle for Self Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005) and is the coauthor with Rosalyn LaPier of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934 (Nebraska, 2015).

Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

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