Living Labor : Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

Living Labor Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and workers are emerging to refashion this image. Living Labor examines these narratives and, in the proc...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher (publisher)
Other Authors: Entin, Joseph B., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press 2023.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Class, culture
Subjects:
Motion pictures, American > 21st century > History and criticism.
Motion pictures, American > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Labor in motion pictures > 21st century.
Labor in motion pictures > 20th century.
Labor in literature > 21st century.
Labor in literature > 20th century.
Working class in motion pictures > 21st century.
Working class in motion pictures > 20th century.
Working class in literature > 21st century.
Working class in literature > 20th century.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States > Economic conditions > 21st century.
United States > Economic conditions > 20th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009717802606719
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Narratives of Living Labor
  • 1. "We Are the Planet": Impossible Solidarities in Russell Banks's Continental Drift
  • 2. "Maps of Labor": Globalization, Migration, and Contemporary Working-Class Literature
  • 3. Living Labor, Dead Labor: Cinema, Solidarity, and Necrocapitalism
  • 4. "The Uprooted Worker at the Center of the World": Labor, Migration, and Precarity on the Urban Underside of Independent Cinema
  • Coda: Forms of Solidarity in Precarious Times
  • Notes
  • Index.

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