Ever read his brutal The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids?
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Yes, was thinking of that. And really a lot of Moby Dick is about the workplace (which happens to be a whaling ship). CLR James was good on this.
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Long, interesting history of readings of Bartleby as an anti-capitalist saint, through Deleuze and Occupy. I crammed some of it in here:http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/10/herman_melville_s_bartleby_the_scrivener_an_interactive_annotated_text.html …
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