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America's Workers Have Been Singing, Reciting, Performing, Telling Stories, Writing, And Publishing For More Than Three Centuries. Ranging From Early Colonial Times To The Present, American Working-class Literature Presents More Than 300 Literary Texts That Exemplify This Tradition. It Demonstrates How American Working People Live, Labor, Struggle, Express Themselves, And Give Meaning To Their Experiences Both Inside And Outside Of The Workplace. The Only Book Of Its Kind, This Groundbreaking Anthology Includes Work Not Only By The Industrial Proletariat But Also By Slaves And Unskilled Workers, By Those Who Work Unpaid At Home, And By Workers In Contemporary Service Industries. As Diverse In Race, Gender, Culture, And Region As America's Working Class Itself, The Selections Represent A Wide Range Of Genres Including Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Memoir, Oratory, Journalism, Letters, Oral History, And Songs. Works By Little-known Or Anonymous Authors Are Included Alongside Texts From Such Acclaimed Writers As Frederick Douglass, Upton Sinclair, Tillie Olsen, Philip Levine, Maxine Hong Kingston, And Leslie Marmon Silko. A Rich Selection Of Contemporary Writing Includes Martin Espada's Poe

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Author

Nicholas Coles, Janet Zandy

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195144567

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.2 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14