This volume charts how the worker has been portrayed and sometimes misrepresented in American fiction. It examines novelistic treatment of """"men's"""", """"women's"""", """"white"""" and """"racialized"""" work that both mirror and reconfigure breadwinning in the United States.
This volume charts how the worker has been portrayed and sometimes misrepresented in American fiction. It examines novelistic treatment of """"men's"""", """"women's"""", """"white"""" and """"racialized"""" work that both mirror and reconfigure breadwinning in the United States.
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
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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