Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and
represented between 1890 and 1930. There is a strong critical
tradition in literary and historical studies that sees the impact
of modernity on human labour in terms of intensification and
alienation. Shiach, however, explores a series of efforts to
articulate the relations between labour and selfhood within
modernism. She examines the philosophical languages available for
thinking about labour in the period. She then gives an account of
the significance of two technologies, the typewriter and the
washing machine, central to a cultural and political understanding
of labour. Through readings of writings by Sylvia Pankhurst and D.
H. Lawrence, Shiach shows how labour underpins the political and
textual innovations of the period. She concludes with an analysis
of the 'general strike' both as myth and historical event. This
study will be of interest to literary and cultural scholars alike.
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