CRITICAL READINGS: The Solidarity of Song: Proletarians, Poetry, and the Public Sphere of the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912.

Autor: Forbes, Tara, Bjorge, Mikhail
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Zdroj: Critical Insights: Literature of Protest; May2013, p167-190, 24p
Abstrakt: The article presents a discussion on the reimagining of life's possibilities as a strategy during the Lawrence Textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. It describes the songs created during the strike as intellectual work that allowed strikers a critique of the capitalist power structure and a reconception of the world of labor. The article concludes that song was significant element of proletarian revolt, power, and activity for and by the working class.
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