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.
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"A stunning work of scholarship..." - -- Janet Zandy, author of Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings
"Hapke's book, remarkable in scope and inclusiveness, offers those concerned with American working people a mine of information..." -- Paul Lauter, A.K & G.M. Smith Professor of Literature, Trinity College.
"Labor's Text traverses nearly two centuries of the U.S. literary response in fiction to workers and the work experience." - -- Alan Wald, author of Writing from the Left --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"Hapke's book, remarkable in scope and inclusiveness, offers those concerned with American working people a mine of information..." -- Paul Lauter, A.K & G.M. Smith Professor of Literature, Trinity College.
"Labor's Text traverses nearly two centuries of the U.S. literary response in fiction to workers and the work experience." - -- Alan Wald, author of Writing from the Left --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
About the Author
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.
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The machine truly entered the working-class garden in the two decades prior to the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, African American, Lower East Side, New Deal, Civil War, Native Americans, New England, Great Migration, Knights of Labor, United States, New Masses, Harlem Renaissance, Socialist Party, Mike Gold, Shirtwaist Strike, New Negro, Upton Sinclair, World War, Jack Conroy, Richard Wright, Theodore Dreiser, Facing the Unwomanly, Great Depression, Labor's Ladies, Pittsburgh Survey New!
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The machine truly entered the working-class garden in the two decades prior to the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social protest authors, labor fiction, tenement fiction, proletarian bildungsroman, tenement tale, noble fugitive, midwestern literary radicalism, labor texts, labor novel, black coal miners, strike novel, proletarian fiction, factory lady, proletarian novel, labor literature, mass unionism, antebellum fiction, black steelworkers, radical novel, women adrift, labor themes, radical fiction, labor writers, labor authors, iron moulders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Lower East Side, New Deal, Civil War, Native Americans, New England, Great Migration, Knights of Labor, United States, New Masses, Harlem Renaissance, Socialist Party, Mike Gold, Shirtwaist Strike, New Negro, Upton Sinclair, World War, Jack Conroy, Richard Wright, Theodore Dreiser, Facing the Unwomanly, Great Depression, Labor's Ladies, Pittsburgh Survey New!
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