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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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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2012.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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!" | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 4 -- 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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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