Contents; 1 The Veil and the Vision: Reading Class in American Literature; 2 "Discovering Some New Race": "Life in the Iron Mills," Whiteness, and the Genesis of the American Labor Narrative; 3 Voices of Insurgency: Strikes, Speech, and Social Realism; 4 Middle-Class Melancholy and Proletarian Pain: The Writer as Class Transvestite; 5 Modernism and the Aesthetics of Management: T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein Write Labor Literature; 6 The Fetish of Being Inside: Proletarian Texts and Working-Class Bodies; Notes; Index