industrilitteratur
Industrilitteratur, or industrial literature, is a term used to describe both a literary field and a body of writing that centers on industry, production, and the social and cultural consequences of industrialization. It encompasses fiction that portrays factory life and labor, memoirs by workers, investigative journalism about working conditions, and corporate or trade publications. The category covers literary works as well as technical writing, company histories, and other texts produced within or for industrial settings.
Historically, industrilitteratur emerged with the mass production and urbanization of the 19th century, drawing on realism
Themes include working conditions, class relations, labor organizing, technological change, productivity, safety, and environmental effects. Forms
In scholarly and cultural discourse, industrilitteratur contributes to labor history, economic sociology, and cultural memory by