TY  - BOOK
AU  - Livingstone,Joan
AU  - Ploof,John
TI  - The object of labor: art, cloth, and cultural production 
SN  - 0262122901 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 338.6425 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chicago, Ill., Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press, MIT Press
KW  - Handicraft industries
KW  - Material culture
N1  - Contents:

vi  Joan Livingstone, John Ploof
Introduction

1  Maureen P. Sherlock
piece work: Home, factory, studio, exhibit

31  Alan Howard
Labor, History and sweatshops in the new global economy

51  J. Morgan Puett, Iain Kerr
That word which means smuggling across boarders, incorporated: the multipled suit

59  Karen Reimer
work now

67  Helen Haejin Cho
machine dreams

81  subRose
Can you see us now? Ya Nos Pueden Ver?

89  Margo Mensing
Lace curtains for troy

105  Anne Wilson
Damask

113  Carol Becker
Amazwi Abesifazane: Voices of women

131  Andries Botha
Amazwi Abesifazane: Reclaiming the emotional and public self

143  Lara Lepionka
Visible links

151  Darrel  Morris
I mean this

159  Viji srinivasani, Dr. Skye Morrison, Laila Tyabji, and Dorothy Caldwell 
Stitching wome n's lives: Sujun and khatwa from Bihar, India

181  Barbara Layne, Sue Rowley
Inventory of labor

189  Park Chambers
Signifiers

197  Lou Cabeen 
Home work

219  Lisa Clerk
What are you making

227  Brain Jungen
from prototypes for the new understanding

229  Susie Brandt
Sew your own stamp flag

235  Pepon Osolio
from trials and tabulence

239  Nancy Gildert
Torn and mended: Textile actions at ground zero and beyond

255  Sadie Plant
Ada lovelence and the room of life

265  Lia Cook
hands on sports

273  Alison Ferris
biting and chewing in contemporary art

281  Nick Cave  
from SOUNDSUITS

283  Janis jaferris
lqaboured cloth: trnslations of hybridity in contemporary ary

295  Yinka Shonibare
Big boy, leisure lady, gay victorians

297  Kimsooja
for cities on the move

299  Mary Jane Jacob 
material with a memory

315  bell hooks 
An Aesthetic of blackness: strange and oppositional 

333 Ann Hamilton
from indigo blue

337  Neil MacInnis, in collaboration with Judith Leemann
Deco-jamming is Eco-glam!

357 Ingrid Bachmann
Hand labour and digital capitalism at the Chicago board of trade

369  Merril Mason
Iron into lace

377  Kevin Murray
Artist as insect

Christine Tarkowski
Endpapers

;  Index : p. 400 - 408
ER  -