TY - BOOK AU - Scott,William ED - Project Muse. TI - Troublemakers: power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker T2 - American literatures initiative SN - 9780813553139 AV - PS374.W64 S36 2012 U1 - 813/.5209352623 22 PY - 2012/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Social conflict in literature KW - Work in literature KW - Labor movement in literature KW - Power (Social sciences) in literature KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Working class in literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813553139/ ER -