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Troublemakers power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker / William Scott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2012.; ©2012Description: 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813553139
  • 081355313X
Other title:
  • Power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS374.64
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
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!"
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 and 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 and rsquo;s The Jungle, Ruth McKenney and rsquo;s Industrial Valley, and Jack London and 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 and mdash;sit-down strikes, sabotage, and other spontaneous acts of rank-and-file and ldquo;troublemakin.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 and 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 and rsquo;s The Jungle, Ruth McKenney and rsquo;s Industrial Valley, and Jack London and 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 and mdash;sit-down strikes, sabotage, and other spontaneous acts of rank-and-file and ldquo;troublemakin.

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