ISBN:
0472903144
,
9780472903146
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii , 202 pages)
Series Statement:
Class
Series Statement:
Culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
1900-2099
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Working class in literature 20th century
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Working class in literature 21st century
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Working class in motion pictures 20th century
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Working class in motion pictures 21st century
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Labor in literature 20th century
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Labor in literature 21st century
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Labor in motion pictures 20th century
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Labor in motion pictures 21st century
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American literature History and criticism 20th century
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American literature History and criticism 21st century
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Motion pictures, American History and criticism 20th century
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Motion pictures, American History and criticism 21st century
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American literature
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Economic history
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Labor in literature
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Labor in motion pictures
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Motion pictures, American
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Social conditions
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Working class in literature
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Working class in motion pictures
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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United States Economic conditions 20th century
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United States Economic conditions 21st century
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United States Social conditions 20th century
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United States Social conditions 21st century
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United States
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 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and index
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