Scenes from the American Working Class

Steven Michels

doi:10.5771/9781666938913

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3890-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3891-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 260
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
1. Setting the Stage No access
2. Scope of the Book No access
3. Overview of Chapters No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Adoration of the Land No access
2. Against Consumerism No access
3. Boomers versus Stickers No access
4. Lincoln on Free Labor No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam No access
2. The Modern Project: Communication Made Impossible No access
3. American Melodrama: Street Scene No access
4. Speed and Violence No access
5. Conclusion: Roads and Possibilities No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Notes No access
2. Bibliography No access
1. The Prosecution No access
2. The Defense No access
3. Wright’s Explanation No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Ortega, Mass Man, and Authenticity No access
2. Mass Man’s Existential Rejection of Meaning and Purpose No access
3. Mass Man, Agglomeration, and Work No access
4. Novelist, Elmer Kelton: Work in the American West No access
5. The Time It Never Rained No access
6. Critics of Western Literature and the Culture of Critique No access
7. The Day the Cowboys Quit No access
8. Eric Hoffer: Authenticity and Work No access
9. The Personality of True Believers No access
10. Hoffer’s Perspicuity No access
11. Hoffer Identifies the Culture War in the 1950s No access
12. Notes No access
13. Bibliography No access
1. Schrader’s Desire for Creative Independence: From Writer to Auteur Filmmaker No access
2. Casting Blue Collar: Competing Egos and Racial Tensions No access
3. Blue Collar as a Social Realist Drama No access
4. Blue Collar as a Neo-film Noir Caper No access
5. Blue Collar as a Political Treatise on the U.S. Democratic Experiment: Class Division and Racial Tension No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Working-Class Challenges as Believable Drama No access
2. American Films and American Identity Crises No access
3. America’s Working-Class Crisis and the Rise of Financialism No access
4. The Powerless Working Class in Wall Street No access
5. Bud Fox Betrays the Working Class No access
6. “Greed Is Good” No access
7. Carl’s Working-Class Independence No access
8. “Wall Street’s in the Liquidation Business These Days, Jorgy” No access
9. “I Don’t Take Money from Widows and Orphans. I Make Them Money.” No access
10. “We’ll Be Making Wire and Cable for a Long Time” No access
11. Notes No access
12. Bibliography No access
1. Trethewey in Context No access
2. Labor Writing in Black and White No access
3. Domestic Work Reconsidered No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. The Detail No access
2. Education and Other Bureaucracies No access
3. This Game Is Rigged No access
4. Craft and Crossover No access
5. Copaganda and Crime as a Social Construct No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Happiness and Mad Men No access
2. Locke and Happiness No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. The Work Is Mysterious and Important No access
2. Exploiting Ourselves No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Traditions of the Dead Generations No access
2. Capitalism and Diminished Lives No access
3. I Believe in the Hope No access
4. Hope and Cruel Optimism No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
About the Contributors No access Pages 243 - 246
Index No access Pages 247 - 258
Acknowledgments No access Pages 259 - 260