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Murphy, Claudette Michelle.

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Sick buildings and sick bodies: The materialization of an occupational illness in late capitalism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sick buildings and sick bodies: The materialization of an occupational illness in late capitalism./
Author:	Murphy, Claudette Michelle.
Description:	404 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A, page: 1743.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-05A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9832450
ISBN:	9780591855401

Sick buildings and sick bodies: The materialization of an occupational illness in late capitalism.
Murphy, Claudette Michelle.

Sick buildings and sick bodies: The materialization of an occupational illness in late capitalism. - 404 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A, page: 1743.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1998.

Taking the occupational illness Sick Building Syndrome as an entry point, this dissertation is a history of the connections between buildings and bodies in the context of late-twentieth century office work in the United States. In three parts, from three different angles, the dissertation explores the relationship between history and materiality in office buildings and women's bodies. Part I contrasts the history of office work and managerial theories with the rematerialization of the office performed by the women's office worker movement of the 1970s and 80s. Part II undertakes a historical excavation of office buildings as multiplicities composed of three historical strata: machines, pollution, and ecology. Part III follows the bodies of women with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity living in the 1990s through a process of rematerialization and dematerialization in the workers' compensation machine, alternative health, and domestic space. I argue that the actions of ordinary women--as labor activists, popular epidemiologists, and caretakers--are just as significant as those of "experts" in the materialization of late-twentieth century, nonspecific illnesses. I conclude that the history of Sick Building Syndrome does not reveal an "it"; instead materiality itself is theorized in terms of historical multiplicities.

ISBN: 9780591855401Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Sick buildings and sick bodies: The materialization of an occupational illness in late capitalism.
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