William Scott

Troublemakers

Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780813551906
• ISBN-10: 0813551900
• Artikelnr.: 33770857

Autorenporträt

WILLIAM SCOTT is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including Callaloo, MLN, and American Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : power, representation, fiction
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"
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