Documentary Industrial Novels and the Sociology of Work in the Twentieth Century

Prof. dr. Erik de Gier MA (1948) is professor emeritus, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University. He is an industrial sociologist and expert in American studies. De Gier is also the author of Capitalist Workingman’s Paradises Revisited. Corporate Welfare Work in Great Britain, the USA, Germany and France in the Golden Age of Capitalism, 1880–1930, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2016. In the past he published extensively about industrial relations, working conditions, the labour market, and social security.

• Acknowledgements, Preface, Note on sources, 1. Bringing together the fields of sociology and literature: Towards an integration of modernist industrial novels into industrial sociology, 2. The rise of welfare work capitalism and the Americanization of production processes in the United States, Western Europe, and the Soviet Union, 3. Between ‘utopia' and ‘dystopia'. American 20th-century industrial novels, 4. Socialist realist industrial novels in the Leninist and Stalinist Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s, 5. New Objectivity industrial novels in Weimar Germany, 6. Neo-realist industrial novels in post-war Italy: The Olivetti case, 7. Simone Weil and modernist industrial novels in France, 8. Transnational comparison and concluding reflection, Bibliography, Index