Living Labor : : Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work / / Joseph B. Entin

• Superior document: Class : Culture
• VerfasserIn: Entin, Joseph B.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Class, culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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...

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.