The object of labor :  art, cloth, and cultural production / 
edited by Joan Livingstone & John Ploof ; designed by Ann Tyler. 
 - Chicago, Ill. ;  Cambridge, Massachusetts :  School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press ;  MIT Press,  c2007. 
 - xiv, 408 p. :  ill. (some col.) ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Contents:<br/><br/>vi  Joan Livingstone, John Ploof<br/>Introduction<br/><br/>1  Maureen P. Sherlock<br/>piece work: Home, factory, studio, exhibit<br/><br/>31  Alan Howard<br/>Labor, History and sweatshops in the new global economy<br/><br/>51  J. Morgan Puett, Iain Kerr<br/>That word which means smuggling across boarders, incorporated: the multipled suit<br/><br/>59  Karen Reimer<br/>work now<br/><br/>67  Helen Haejin Cho<br/>machine dreams<br/><br/>81  subRose<br/>Can you see us now? Ya Nos Pueden Ver?<br/><br/>89  Margo Mensing<br/>Lace curtains for troy<br/><br/>105  Anne Wilson<br/>Damask<br/><br/>113  Carol Becker<br/>Amazwi Abesifazane: Voices of women<br/><br/>131  Andries Botha<br/>Amazwi Abesifazane: Reclaiming the emotional and public self<br/><br/>143  Lara Lepionka<br/>Visible links<br/><br/>151  Darrel  Morris<br/>I mean this<br/><br/>159  Viji srinivasani, Dr. Skye Morrison, Laila Tyabji, and Dorothy Caldwell <br/>Stitching wome n's lives: Sujun and khatwa from Bihar, India<br/><br/>181  Barbara Layne, Sue Rowley<br/>Inventory of labor<br/><br/>189  Park Chambers<br/>Signifiers<br/><br/>197  Lou Cabeen <br/>Home work<br/><br/>219  Lisa Clerk<br/>What are you making<br/><br/>227  Brain Jungen<br/>from prototypes for the new understanding<br/><br/>229  Susie Brandt<br/>Sew your own stamp flag<br/><br/>235  Pepon Osolio<br/>from trials and tabulence<br/><br/>239  Nancy Gildert<br/>Torn and mended: Textile actions at ground zero and beyond<br/><br/>255  Sadie Plant<br/>Ada lovelence and the room of life<br/><br/>265  Lia Cook<br/>hands on sports<br/><br/>273  Alison Ferris<br/>biting and chewing in contemporary art<br/><br/>281  Nick Cave  <br/>from SOUNDSUITS<br/><br/>283  Janis jaferris<br/>lqaboured cloth: trnslations of hybridity in contemporary ary<br/><br/>295  Yinka Shonibare<br/>Big boy, leisure lady, gay victorians<br/><br/>297  Kimsooja<br/>for cities on the move<br/><br/>299  Mary Jane Jacob <br/>material with a memory<br/><br/>315  bell hooks <br/>An Aesthetic of blackness: strange and oppositional <br/><br/>333 Ann Hamilton<br/>from indigo blue<br/><br/>337  Neil MacInnis, in collaboration with Judith Leemann<br/>Deco-jamming is Eco-glam!<br/><br/>357 Ingrid Bachmann<br/>Hand labour and digital capitalism at the Chicago board of trade<br/><br/>369  Merril Mason<br/>Iron into lace<br/><br/>377  Kevin Murray<br/>Artist as insect<br/><br/>Christine Tarkowski<br/>Endpapers<br/><br/> 
<br/><br/>Index : p. 400 - 408 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262122901 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780262122900 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006027386 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Handicraft industries.<br/>Material culture.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.6425  / OBJ