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OverviewFor 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph B. EntinPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780472075195ISBN 10: 0472075195 Pages: 214 Publication Date: 28 February 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Narratives of Living Labor Chapter 1. “We are the Planet”: Impossible Solidarities in Russell Banks’s Continental Drift Chapter 2. “Maps of Labor”: Globalization, Migration, and Contemporary Working-Class Literature Chapter 3. Living Labor, Dead Labor: Cinema, Solidarity, and Necrocapitalism Chapter 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 IndexReviewsLiving Labor offers a vocabulary for a global, post-Fordist working class, through a number of important sometimes well-known, sometimes obscure novels and films that document working-class characters in the U.S. from the 1980s to the present. The book is lucid, precise, and engaging, and helps to us to understand how 'class' and its many representations are made and remade through the contradictions of capitalism. Entin has written a necessary and provocative intervention into the field. --Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University South Bend --Benjamin Balthaser Living Labor aims to update the critical discussion of contemporary American working-class literature to reflect the complex and contested realities of the current era, in which class itself has become increasingly contingent. The book is clear, persuasive, informative, and thought-provoking. --Sherry Linkon, Georgetown University --Sherry Linkon Living Labor offers a vocabulary for a global, post-Fordist working class, through a number of important, sometimes well-known, sometimes obscure novels and films that document working-class characters in the U.S. from the 1980s to the present. The book is lucid, precise, and engaging, and helps us to understand how 'class' and its many representations are made and remade through the contradictions of capitalism. Entin has written a necessary and provocative intervention into the field. --Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University South Bend --Benjamin Balthaser Living Labor offers a vocabulary for a global, post-Fordist working class, through a number of important sometimes well-known, sometimes obscure novels and films that document working-class characters in the U.S. from the 1980s to the present. The book is lucid, precise, and engaging, and helps to us to understand how 'class' and its many representations are made and remade through the contradictions of capitalism. Entin has written a necessary and provocative intervention into the field. --Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University South Bend --Benjamin Balthaser Living Labor aims to update the critical discussion of contemporary American working-class literature to reflect the complex and contested realities of the current era, in which class itself has become increasingly contingent. The book is clear, persuasive, informative, and thought-provoking. --Sherry Linkon, Georgetown University --Sherry Linkon Living Labor aims to update the critical discussion of contemporary American working-class literature to reflect the complex and contested realities of the current era, in which class itself has become increasingly contingent. The book is clear, persuasive, informative, and thought-provoking."" —Sherry Linkon, Georgetown University ""Living Labor offers a vocabulary for a global, post-Fordist working class, through a number of important, sometimes well-known, sometimes obscure novels and films that document working-class characters in the U.S. from the 1980s to the present. The book is lucid, precise, and engaging, and helps us to understand how 'class' and its many representations are made and remade through the contradictions of capitalism. Entin has written a necessary and provocative intervention into the field."" —Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University South Bend Author InformationJoseph B. Entin is Professor of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |