Inside Job: The Transformation of Literature

Argues that the centrality of daily work in human existence should make it a fundamental dimension of imaginative literature. The author discusses his commitment to writing about work from an inside-the-job perspective, and critiques other forms of fiction. Offers a definition of the "new industrial literature," including that it must help alter reality for the better. Considers aspects of new work writing (including in work poetry), writing as a skill, and the work-writing movement.