A Study on the Work Issues in Updike’s Early Novels

Qingzheng LIU

Abstract


The academic circles both at home and abroad have seldom conducted research on the issue of working mode in Updike’s works. However, descriptions and discussions of various working modes have been consistently present throughout his early works. Individual handicraft industry, The manual production mode experienced by the industrial production, as well as Fordism, are all depicted in his works. On this basis, he proposed his own form of labor organization. This paper examines the descriptions of various production modes implied in Updike’s early novels and their influences on people, and sketches out the labor liberation scenario that is distinctive from others in the author’s mind.

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John Updike; Manual labor; Fordism; Working mode

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/13583

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