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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Handbook of Labor Literature
Author: Labor's Text
Author: Laura HapkePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813528809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
"Hapke's book, remarkable in scope and inclusiveness, offers those concerned with American working people a mine of information about and analysis of the 'rich lived history of American laborers' as that has been represented in fictions of every kind. She provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the dirtiest of America's dirty big secrets: the pervasivness of class differences, class discrimination, indeed of class conflict in this, the wealthiest nation in history. Hers is an indispensable guided tour through more than a century and a half of literary representations of 'hands' at their looms, pikets on the line, agitators on their soapboxes, ordinary working women, men, and children in kitchens, parks, factories, and fields across America." --Paul Lauter, A.K. & G.M. Smith Professor of Literature, Trinity College "Labor's Text sets over 150 years of the multi-ethnic literature of work in the context of the history that informed it--the history of labor organizing, of industrial change, of social transformations, and of shifting political alignments. Any scholar of American literature or American history cannot help but be enlightened by this boldly ambitious and illuminating book." -- Shelly Fisher Fishkin, professor of American studies, University of Texas, Austin "Labor's Text traverses nearly two centuries of the U.S. literary response in fiction to workers and the work experience. Casting her net more broadly than any of her predecessors, Hapke's revision of the genre includes many recent writing not usually recognized as part of the tradition. Coming at a moment when there is a steady increase in interest about 'class' from color- and gender-inflected perspectives, this is a work of committed scholarship that may well prove to be a crucial compass to reorient the thinking and scholarship of a new generation." -- Alan Wald, author of Writing from the Left "A stunning work of scholarship. . . . It is an extraordinary achievement and an immense contribution to working-class studies." --Janet Zandy, author of Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings Laura Hapke is a professor of English at Pace University. The winner of two Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Book awards, she is the author of Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s and other books on labor fiction and working-class studies.
The Labor of Literature
Author: Jane D. GriffinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781625342089
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the aesthetics and politics of alternative literary models.
Labor's Untold Story
Author: Richard Owen BoyerPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hands
Author: Janet ZandyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813534350
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In linking forms of cultural expression to labour, occupational injuries and deaths, this title centres what is usualyy decentred - the complex culture of working class people.
Labor Literature
Author: United States. Department of Labor. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Labor Literature
Author: Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Author: Alexandra BradburyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780914093077
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Labor in America
Author: Melvyn DubofskyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118976843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today’s teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the last 20 years, a new generation of students and teachers is beginning to seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our classic survey of American labor is designed to introduce readers to the subject in an engaging, accessible way.
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