Troublemakers Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker |
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| Author:
| Scott, William |
| Series title: | The American Literatures Initiative Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-5190-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $46.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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 "troublemaking" on the job--often carried out independently of union leadership.