Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction

By Laura Hapke

Book Overview

Labor's Text charts how the worker has been portrayed and often misrepresented in American fiction. Laura Hapke offers hundreds of depictions of wage earners: 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813528801
• ISBN13: 9780813528809
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"