{"product_id":"documentary-industrial-novels-and-the-erik-de-gier-9789463721943","title":"Documentary Industrial Novels and the Sociology of Work in the Twentieth Century: The United States, the Soviet Union and Western Europe","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik De Gier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9463721940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789463721943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amsterdam University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.70d","brand":"Erik De Gier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46927640592639,"sku":"9789463721943","price":126.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f963b1b-b3a6-45fe-9211-5e6c721c9142.jpg?v=1749372497","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/documentary-industrial-novels-and-the-erik-de-gier-9789463721943","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}