Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker

by William Scott

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813551900
• ISBN13: 9780813551906
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"