Discussion
for Sinclair’s THE FLIVVER KING
Industrialism
and the Individual: Henry Ford as a Case
Study
The Industrial Revolutions
extension of human
power through technology/devalue muscle work
routine mental work
eliminated ... created alienation
Henry Ford
Notions
of the individual
Business
philosophy
Labor/management
relations
The working class family:
the Shutts
American
Dream
The
reality
The Irony of THE FLIVVER KING
“King”
connotes autocratic control of individual ...
Subservience of subject to king ... examples in this
novel?
Do
the imperatives of industrialism make the irony(ies) inevitable?
Who
is responsible ... ultimately?