Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago by Beck, David R. M.
Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago by Beck, David R. M.

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

Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in...
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Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago by Beck, David R. M.

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

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Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago by Beck, David R. M.

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

$1,102.71
Author: David R. M. Beck
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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. Once the fair opened, Indians from tribes across the United States, as well as other indigenous people, flocked to Chicago. Although they were brought in to serve as displays to fairgoers, they had other motives as well. Once in Chicago they worked to exploit circumstances to their best advantage. Some succeeded; others did not.

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.


Author: David R. M. Beck
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 07/01/2019
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781496206831


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2019

About the Author
David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He 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).
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