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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�...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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's Industrial Valley, and Jack London's The Iron Heel, William Scott moves beyond narrow depictions of these laborers to show their ability to resist exploitation through their direct actions - sit-down strikes, sabotage, and other spontaneous acts of rank-and-file "troublemakin. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813553139 081355313X |