Troublemakers power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker /
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2012.
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| Series: | American literatures initiative
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10535588 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: The making of the mass worker. The powerless worker and the failure of political representation : "the lowest and most degraded of human beasts"; 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. The disempowering worker and the aesthetic representation of industrial unionism: "I am the book that has no end!" ; 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.