"为联合总工会法庭欢呼三声！"：对抗反工会言论，过去与现在

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VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI:10.1017/s1060150323000566

Ruth M. McAdams

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在这篇文章中，我将结合自己作为斯基德莫尔学院非终身教职员工工会成功运动的主要组织者之一的经历，讨论查尔斯-狄更斯的《艰难时世》（1855 年）。狄更斯的小说概述了直接构成现代反工会话语的几种主张，而我在 2022 年看到的是，在我们寻求成立工会的过程中，这些主张被直截了当地演绎了出来。作为一名组织者和维多利亚主义者，我认为我们在研究和教授《艰难时世》这样的文本时，有道德义务考虑到其反工会言论的后遗症。维多利亚时期的工业小说需要由工会工人从明确支持工会的角度进行研究（和教学）。本文将对此做出贡献。

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“Three Cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal!”: Confronting Anti-Union Discourse, Then and Now

In this piece, I discuss Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1855) in the context of my experience as one of the lead organizers of the successful campaign to unionize Skidmore College's non-tenure-track faculty. Dickens's novel outlines several claims that directly comprise modern anti-union discourse and that I saw straightforwardly rehearsed in 2022 as we sought to unionize. As an organizer and a Victorianist, I argue that we have ethical obligations in studying and teaching texts like Hard Times in light of the afterlives of their anti-union rhetoric. The Victorian industrial novel needs to be studied (and taught) from an explicitly pro-union perspective, by unionized workers. This paper contributes to that project.

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VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： Victorian Literature and Culture encourages high quality original work concerned with all areas of Victorian literature and culture, including music and the fine arts. The journal presents work at the cutting edge of current research, including exciting new studies in untouched subjects or new methodologies. Contributions are welcomed from internationally established scholars as well as younger members of the profession. The Editors" topic for 2005 is "Fin-de-Siècle Women Poets". Review essays form a central part of the journal, and offer an authoritative view of important subjects together with a list of relevant works that serves as an up-to-date bibliography.