| Description |
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
American literatures initiative
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| Contents |
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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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. |
| Summary |
William Scott & rsquo;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 & rsquo;s The Jungle, Ruth McKenney & rsquo;s Industrial Valley, and Jack London & rsquo;s The Iron Heel, William Scott moves beyond narrow depictions of these laborers to show their ability to resist exploitation through their direct actions & mdash;sit-down strikes, sabotage, and other spontaneous acts of rank-and-file & ldquo;troublemakin. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class in literature.
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Working class in literature. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
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Power (Social sciences) in literature. |
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Labor movement in literature.
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Labor movement in literature. |
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Work in literature.
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Work in literature. |
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Social conflict in literature.
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Social conflict in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Scott, William. Troublemakers : Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2011 |
| ISBN |
9780813553139 (electronic book) |
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081355313X (electronic book) |
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9780813551890 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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9780813551906 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0813551897 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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0813551900 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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