Troublemakers: power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker
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1. Verfasser: Scott, William (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press ©2012
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Beschreibung: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
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
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