TY - BOOK ID - 143493958 TI - Documentary industrial novels and the sociology of work in the twentieth Century PY - 2023 SN - 9789048552399 9789463721943 9463721940 PB - Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press B.V. DB - UniCat KW - American fiction KW - Russian fiction KW - European fiction KW - Working class in literature KW - Industries in literature KW - Literature and society KW - Roman américain KW - Roman russe KW - Roman européen KW - Travailleurs dans la littérature KW - Industrie dans la littérature KW - Littérature et société KW - Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers. KW - 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000. KW - Social and cultural history. KW - Industry and industrial studies. KW - HISTORY / Social History. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century * KW - PHILOSOPHY / Social. KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143493958 AB - "In several European countries, the United States, and the Soviet Union, remarkable industrial novels based on empirical observations were written between 1900 and 1970. With two successive world wars and the rise of communism and fascism, this was an exceptionally turbulent time in the history of industrial capitalism as Taylorism and Fordism sought to increase production and consumption. This social landscape shaped modernist industrial novels. Key themes in these novels were class conflict, bad working conditions, worker alienation, changing workmen and employee cultures, urbanization, and worker migration. The primary goal was to document and publicize the real developments of working conditions in factories and offices, often aiming to influence both company welfare work and state social policies. This book focuses on the modernist industrial novel as written in five large industrial nations: the United States before WWII, the Stalinist Soviet Union, Weimar Germany, post-WWII Italy, and France."--Publisher's website. ER -