Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction

Author/Contributor(s):	Hapke, Laura
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Date:	12/01/2000
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.