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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scott, William, 1968-
Autor Corporativo: American Literatures Initiative
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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!"
  • 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.