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Circus World : Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show
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Title
Circus World : Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show / Andrea Ringer.
ISBN
9780252056741
9780252045868
9780252087967
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©[2024]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and the traditional and nontraditional laborers who created it. Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work. Illuminating and vivid, Circus World delves into the gender, class, and even species concerns within an extinct way of life. "-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Other formats
Print version: Ringer, Andrea Circus world Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
The working class in American history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: The circus migrant making circus day human and animal circus workers and their knowledge networks
Part II: The circus lot women's work and gendered circus labor in the tented shows animal motherhood and (Re)constructed circus families captive, coerced, and frontline sideshow workers
Part III: The circus world from the outside the circus as big business the making of the circus celebrity organized circus labor and working-class audiences
Conclusion: Circus afterlives.
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History.
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