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Labor and workplace issues in literature
Title:
Labor and workplace issues in literature
Author:
Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, [2006]

©2006
Physical Description:
xix, 183 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Series foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Mary Prince's History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave -- 2. Charles Dickens's Hard times -- 3. Herman Melville's "The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of maids" -- 4. Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills -- 5. Herman Melville's "Bartelby the scrivener: a story of Wall Street" -- 6. Upton Sinclair's The jungle -- 7. John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath -- 8. Studs Terkel's Working -- 9. Zilpha Snyder's The velvet room, Joan Bauer's Hope was here, and Anne Mazer's Working days.
ISBN:
9780313332869
Format :
Book