ISBN:
9780415854399
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0415854393
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 213 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
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24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology 143
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
;
Alternative lifestyles / New York (State) / New York / History
;
Work / History
;
Alternative lifestyles
;
Manners and customs
;
Work
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Geschichte
;
Arbeitsverhältnis
;
Alternativbewegung
;
Bohème
;
New York (State) / Social life and customs
;
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) / History
;
New York (State)
;
New York (State) / New York
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New York (State) / New York / Lower East Side
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New York, NY
;
New York, NY
;
Bohème
;
Alternativbewegung
;
Arbeitsverhältnis
Abstract:
"The iconoclastic ingenuity of bohemians, from Gerard de Nerval to Allen Ginsberg, continually captivates the popular imagination; the worlds of fashion, advertising, and even real estate all capitalize on the alternative appeal of bohemian style. Persistently overlooked, however, is bohemians' distinctive relationship to work. In this book, sociologist Judith R. Halasz examines the fascinating junctures between bohemian labor and life. Weaving together historiography, ethnography, and personal experiences of having been raised amidst downtown New York's bohemian communities, Halasz deciphers bohemians' unconventional behaviors and attitudes towards employment and the broader work world. From the nineteenth-century harbingers on Paris' Left Bank to the Beats, Underground, and more recent bohemian outcroppings on New York's Lower East Side, The Bohemian Ethos traces the embodiment of a politically charged yet increasingly precarious form of cultural resistance to hegemonic social and economic imperatives"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
