Labor's text : the worker in American fiction

Hapke, Laura (Author).

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ISBN: 0813528798 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780813528793 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0813528801 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780813528809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 474 p. : ill ; 26 cm.
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : Whose plot is it anyway? -- 1. Workers in the wings : antebellum fictions -- 2. I'm looking through you : working men from status quo to knights of labor fiction -- 3. Labor's ladies : work fiction and true women from antebellum Lowell through the Gilded Age -- 4. Taking to their streets : ethnic cultures and labor texts in the sociological 1890s -- 5. Beastmen and labor experts : fiction and the problem of authority from 1900 to 1917 -- 6. Facing the unwomanly : sweatshop and sex shop in progressive era labor fiction -- 7. The hungary eye : desire and disaffection in 1920s labor fiction -- 8. From Black folk to working class : African American labor fiction between the World Wars -- 9. Heroic at last : Depression era fiction -- 10. What war your crime? : representing labor in the HUAC era -- 11. The usable past : jobs, myths, and three racial-ethnic literatures of the Civil Rights era -- 12. Working-class twilight : White labor texts of the Civil Rights and Vietnam decades -- Conclusion : Everything old is new again : working through class in the literary 1990s

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American fiction History and criticism
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