HUNTER BIVENS is Associate Professor of Literature and German Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Work, Affect, and ObstinacyWhat is a Construction Novel?Work and NarrationIdeology or Allegory? Chapter Overview1: "The Poetry of the Future"? Periodizing the Construction NovelSocialist Realism and the Public SphereEmulation and Form(alism)The Construction Novel between Schematism and (Non)Conflict2: "The Fire of Labor": Living Labor and AffectWhat is the Political Economy of Labor Power?Animal SpiritsLabor as Stimmung and Narrative3: "The Dead Forces of Nature": Obstinate Infrastructure and the Socialist GimmickMaking Infrastructure Socialist: Eduard Claudius, Menschen an unserer SeiteWorker Representation and Worker Subjects: Hans Marchwitza, RoheisenObstinate Infrastructure: Hans Lorbeer, Die Sieben ist eine gute Zahl4: "In the Social Production of their Life...": Visions of Socialist Social ReproductionWhat is a Socialist Haltung? Marianne Bruns, Glück fällt nicht vom HimmelRe-Balancing Abjection: Elfriede Brüning, Regine HaberkornThe Moral Occult of Socialism: J. C. Schwarz, Sie blieb nicht alleinCoda: Heike Geißler's Seasonal Associate and the Specter of StakhanovSelected BibliographyIndex

HUNTER BIVENS is Associate Professor of Literature and German Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Work, Affect, and ObstinacyWhat is a Construction Novel?Work and NarrationIdeology or Allegory? Chapter Overview1: "The Poetry of the Future"? Periodizing the Construction NovelSocialist Realism and the Public SphereEmulation and Form(alism)The Construction Novel between Schematism and (Non)Conflict2: "The Fire of Labor": Living Labor and AffectWhat is the Political Economy of Labor Power?Animal SpiritsLabor as Stimmung and Narrative3: "The Dead Forces of Nature": Obstinate Infrastructure and the Socialist GimmickMaking Infrastructure Socialist: Eduard Claudius, Menschen an unserer SeiteWorker Representation and Worker Subjects: Hans Marchwitza, RoheisenObstinate Infrastructure: Hans Lorbeer, Die Sieben ist eine gute Zahl4: "In the Social Production of their Life...": Visions of Socialist Social ReproductionWhat is a Socialist Haltung? Marianne Bruns, Glück fällt nicht vom HimmelRe-Balancing Abjection: Elfriede Brüning, Regine HaberkornThe Moral Occult of Socialism: J. C. Schwarz, Sie blieb nicht alleinCoda: Heike Geißler's Seasonal Associate and the Specter of StakhanovSelected BibliographyIndex

HUNTER BIVENS is Associate Professor of Literature and German Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Work, Affect, and ObstinacyWhat is a Construction Novel?Work and NarrationIdeology or Allegory? Chapter Overview1: "The Poetry of the Future"? Periodizing the Construction NovelSocialist Realism and the Public SphereEmulation and Form(alism)The Construction Novel between Schematism and (Non)Conflict2: "The Fire of Labor": Living Labor and AffectWhat is the Political Economy of Labor Power?Animal SpiritsLabor as Stimmung and Narrative3: "The Dead Forces of Nature": Obstinate Infrastructure and the Socialist GimmickMaking Infrastructure Socialist: Eduard Claudius, Menschen an unserer SeiteWorker Representation and Worker Subjects: Hans Marchwitza, RoheisenObstinate Infrastructure: Hans Lorbeer, Die Sieben ist eine gute Zahl4: "In the Social Production of their Life...": Visions of Socialist Social ReproductionWhat is a Socialist Haltung? Marianne Bruns, Glück fällt nicht vom HimmelRe-Balancing Abjection: Elfriede Brüning, Regine HaberkornThe Moral Occult of Socialism: J. C. Schwarz, Sie blieb nicht alleinCoda: Heike Geißler's Seasonal Associate and the Specter of StakhanovSelected BibliographyIndex