Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction

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.

Author: Laura Hapke
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 12/01/2000
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.86lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780813528809

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2000 pg. 66
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 233

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.