Labor's TextLabor's Text charts how the worker has been portrayed and often misrepresented in American fiction. Laura Hapke offers hundreds of depictions of wage earners: from fiction on the early artisan "aristocrats" to the Gilded Age's union busting novelists to the year 2000's marginalized, apolitical men and women. Whether the authors discussed are pro or anti labor, Hapke illuminates the literary, historical, and intellectual contexts in which their fiction