Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker
(Part of the The American Literatures Initiative Series)
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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. 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813551900
ISBN13:9780813551906
Release Date:November 2011
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary
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