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  1. Troublemakers
    power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker
    Author: Scott, William
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J. ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    William Scott & rsquo;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. Analyzing portrayals of workers in such novels... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    William Scott & rsquo;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. Analyzing portrayals of workers in such novels as Upton Sinclair & rsquo;s The Jungle, Ruth McKenney & rsquo;s Industrial Valley, and Jack London & rsquo;s The Iron Heel, William Scott moves beyond narrow depictions of these laborers to show their ability to resist exploitation through their direct actions & mdash;sit-down strikes, sabotage, and other spontaneous acts of rank-and-file & ldquo;troublemakin.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813553139; 081355313X
    Series: American literatures initiative
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 284 pages), Illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Troublemakers
    power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker
    Published: c2012
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J

    William Scott & rsquo;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. Analyzing portrayals of workers in such novels... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    E-Book Ebsco
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    William Scott & rsquo;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. Analyzing portrayals of workers in such novels as Upton Sinclair & rsquo;s The Jungle, Ruth McKenney & rsquo;s Industrial Valley, and Jack London & rsquo;s The Iron Heel, William Scott moves beyond narrow depictions of these laborers to show their ability to resist exploitation through their direct actions & mdash;sit-down strikes, sabotage, and other spontaneous acts of rank-and-file & ldquo;troublemakin

     
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  3. Troublemakers
    power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker
    Author: Scott, William
    Published: ©2012
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J.

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0813551897; 0813551900; 081355313X; 9780813551890; 9780813551906; 9780813553139
    Subjects: Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Literatur; Working class in literature; American fiction; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Labor movement in literature; Work in literature; Social conflict in literature; Macht <Motiv>; Literatur; Arbeiterbewegung <Motiv>; Arbeiter <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 284 pages)
    Notes:

    Acknowledgments; Introduction: Power--Representation--Fiction; Part One -- The Making of the Mass Worker; 1 -- The Powerless Worker and the Failure of Political Representation: "The lowest and most degraded of human beasts"; 2 -- 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; 3 -- The Disempowering Worker and the Aesthetic Representation of Industrial Unionism: "I am the book that has no end!"

    4 -- 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; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

    William Scott & rsquo;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. Analyzing portrayals of workers in such novels as Upton Sinclair & rsquo;s The Jungle, Ruth McKenney & rsquo;s Industrial Valley, and Jack London & rsquo;s The Iron Heel, William Scott moves beyond narrow depictions of these laborers to show their ability to resist exploitation through their direct actions & mdash;sit-down strikes, sabotage, and other spontaneous acts of rank-and-file & ldquo;troublemakin

    Includes bibliographical references and index