A Comprehensive Materials and Archival Analysis of Labor Alienation In Historic Pullman, Chicago.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

For anthropology to study what it means to be human it is imperative that we have a robust understanding of alienation, the phenomenon of being separated from our humanity. This paper will demonstrate the results of both archaeological and historic archival research into labor alienation as it occurred in the industrial town of Pullman, Chicago during the George Pullman years of 1880-1894. The results of these analyses include data that illuminates the lives of “classic” industrial laborers as well as domestic and non-traditional laborers, who are often excluded in historic literature, showing the myriad ways in which workers respond to extrinsic labor alienation with self-valorization and social networks. This comprehensive interpretation of labor alienation is necessary for our understanding of the human condition and for current residential labor sites including technological or university campuses and almost certain future attempts to establish human populations beyond our own planet.

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• SHA 2022 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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