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  1. Troublemakers
    Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker
    Author: Scott, William
    Published: [2011]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    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... more

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV)

     

    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813553139
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    Series: The American Literatures Initiative
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; American fiction; Labor movement in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Social conflict in literature; Work in literature; Working class in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (288 pages), 10 illustrations
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
  2. Troublemakers
    Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker
    Author: Scott, William
    Published: [2011]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    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... more

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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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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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813553139
    Other identifier:
    Series: The American Literatures Initiative
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; American fiction; Labor movement in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Social conflict in literature; Work in literature; Working class in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (288 pages), 10 illustrations
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
  3. 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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    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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  4. Troublemakers
    power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker
    Author: Scott, William
    Published: ©2012
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J.

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    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)
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    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