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Troublemakers - Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker (Hardcover, New)
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Troublemakers - Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker (Hardcover, New)
Series: The American Literatures Initiative
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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 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.
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