Troublemakers : power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker /
Scott, William,1968-
American Literatures Initiative.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part one: 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." Part two: 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.
Working class in literature.
American fiction
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Labor movement in literature.
Work in literature.
Social conflict in literature.