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Circus World
2024
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
0252045866, 9780252045868, 0252056744, 9780252056741, 9780252087967, 0252087968
