description: Labor's Text charts how the worker has been portrayed and often misrepresented in American fiction. Laura Hapke offers hundreds of depictions of wage from fiction on the early artisan "aristocrats" to the Gilded Age's union-busting novelists to the year 2000's marginalized, apolitical men and women. Whether the authors discussed are pro- or anti-labor, Hapke illuminates the literary, historical, and intellectual contexts in which their fiction was produced and read.
language: English
title: Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction
titlecomplete: Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Rutgers University Press