I'll Never Be Fat Again!
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Book Overview
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. With the rise of mechanization and assembly-line labor from the 1890s to the 1930s, these laborers found that they had been transformed into a class of "mass" workers who, since that time, have been seen alternately as powerless, degraded victims or heroic, empowered icons who could rise above their oppression only through the help of representative organizations located outside the workplace.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. The novel of the mass industrial worker invites us to rethink our understanding of modern forms of representation through its attempts to imagine and depict workers' agency in an environment where it appears to be completely suppressed.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0942637496
ISBN13:9780942637496
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Barricade Books
Length:271 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
The only "diet" book you'll ever need.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I bought this book in 1988 - and I still have it on my shelf fifteen years later! It's the authors own personal story about her weight loss and in the end she tells you there is no magic cure - you just have to find your own path. BUT DO IT!
foodaholics can lose weight if they learn to change the way
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
great, very honest and motaving. The author comes from an obesce family and talks about the supr dangers of being overweight. by being chronically obese they were prone to many illnesses they might have avoided otherwise. diets don,t work. must learn new eating habits. no forbidden foods only inapporiate amounts of food. you don't have to eat breakfast, learn to rely on your stomach to tell you when to eat. people respond to food like laboatory rats;when the food is laced in front of them they eat it whether they are hungry or not. gives actual guidelines and steps to be successful. very positive book.
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