1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451653403321

Autore

Weir Stan

Titolo

Singlejack solidarity [[electronic resource] /] / Stan Weir ; edited and with an afterword by George Lipsitz ; foreword by Norm Diamond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8166-9565-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Collana

Critical American studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

LipsitzGeorge

Disciplina

331.88/092

B

Soggetti

Labor unions - United States - Officials and employees

Labor unions - United States

Labor movement - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-365) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; I. Working-Class Cultures; II. The Human Costs of Automation; III. Solidarity Networks; IV. Workers, Politics, and Social Change; V. The Vanguard Party and Worker Self-Activity; VI. Primary Work Groups; VII. The Failure of Business Unionism, the Rank and File Alternative; Notes; Publication History; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Edited and with an afterword by George LipsitzBlue-collar intellectual and activist, Stan Weir devoted his life to the advocacy of his fellow workers. Singlejack Solidarity offers a rare look at life and social relations as seen from the factory, dockside, and the shop floor. Gathered here for the first time, Weir's writings-part memoir, labor history, and polemic-document a crucial chapter in the story of working-class America.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910348238303321

Autore

Humphries David T.

Titolo

Different dispatches : journalism in American modernist prose / / David T. Humphries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-135-50643-4

1-135-50636-1

1-281-08175-2

9786611081751

0-203-95984-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Disciplina

810.90052

818.520809

818/.520809

Soggetti

American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Press and journalism in literature

Journalists in literature

Popular culture in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sound of Foxes, the Voice of the Community; Chapter One. The Journalist, the Immigrant, and Willa Cather's Popular Modernism; Chapter Two. Sherwood Anderson's Imagined Communities; Chapter Three. The Camera Eye and Reporter's Conscience in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises; Chapter Four. Divided Identities, Desiring Reporters in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Chapter Five. Reoprting on the New Dawn of Cold-War Culture in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's MenNotes; Works Cited; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

Brings together a group of well-known American writers of the inter-



war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, and Robert Penn Warren. This book demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions.