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dc.contributor.authorEntin, Joseph B.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-25T11:13:52Z
dc.date.available2023-01-25T11:13:52Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60880
dc.description.abstractFor 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 process, offers an innovative reading of American fiction and film through the lens of precarious work. It argues that since the 1980s, novelists and filmmakers—including Russell Banks, Helena Víramontes, Karen Tei Yamashita, Francisco Goldman, David Riker, Ramin Bahrani, Clint Eastwood, Courtney Hunt, and Ryan Coogler—have chronicled the demise of the industrial proletariat, and the tentative and unfinished emergence of a new, much more diverse and perilously positioned working class. In bringing together stories of work that are also stories of race, ethnicity, gender, and colonialism, Living Labor challenges the often-assumed division between class and identity politics. Through the concept of living labor and its discussion of solidarity, the book reframes traditional notions of class, helping us understand both the challenges working people face and the possibilities for collective consciousness and action in the global present.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesClass : Cultureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.otherLiving labor, MarxMarxism, contemporary U.S., America fiction, literature, film, work, precarity, precarious labor, working-class, class, solidarity, realism, identity politics, ethnicity race, immigration, transnationalism, necrocapitalism, dead labor, globalization, neoliberalismen_US
dc.titleLiving Laboren_US
dc.title.alternativeFiction, Film, and Precarious Worken_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3998/mpub.11738099en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780472075195en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780472055197en_US
oapen.pages216en_US


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