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.