Labor and Workplace Issues in Literature

by Claudia Durst Johnson

The daily newspaper headlines revealing deaths, illnesses, and injuries in the workplace, along with the ongoing decline of workers' rights, make this book an especially timely volume. Included are chapters devoted to such widely read texts as Hard Times, Life in the Iron Mills, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Grapes of Wrath, and several others. Each chapter examines the historical background and plot of the work, the labor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031333286X
• ISBN13: 9780313332869
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"