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Troublemakers : power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker /
William Scott's Troublemakers explores how a major change in the nature and forms of working-class power affected novels about U.S. industrial workers in the first half of the twentieth century. Analyzing portrayals of workers in such novels as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Ruth McKenney�...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Power--Representation--Fiction; Part One
- The Making of the Mass Worker; 1
- The Powerless Worker and the Failure of Political Representation: "The lowest and most degraded of human beasts"; 2
- The Empowered Worker and the Technological Representation of Capital: "Out of this furnace, this metal"; Part Two
- Strategy and Structure at the Point of Production; 3
- The Disempowering Worker and the Aesthetic Representation of Industrial Unionism: "I am the book that has no end!"
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- The Powerful Worker and the Demand for Economic Representation: "They planned to use their flesh, their bones, as a barricade"Conclusion: Making Trouble on a Global Scale; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.