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Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

dc.contributor.author Entin, Joseph B.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-04T06:32:13Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-04T06:32:13Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.description Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.11738099, License: CC-BY-NC, Publisher: University of Michigan Press
dc.description.abstract 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 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 VĂ­ramontes, 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.
dc.identifier.isbn 9780472903146
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.vlu.edu.vn:443/handle/123456789/6544
dc.language.iso en
dc.subject Language & Literature
dc.subject American Studies
dc.title Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work
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