Troublemakers power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker / [electronic resource] :
Power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker
William Scott.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012.
- x, 284 p. : ill.
- American literatures initiative .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part one: The making of the mass worker. The powerless worker and the failure of political representation : "the lowest and most degraded of human beasts"; 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. The disempowering worker and the aesthetic representation of industrial unionism: "I am the book that has no end!" ; 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.
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Working class in literature. American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Power (Social sciences) in literature. Labor movement in literature. Work in literature. Social conflict in literature.