Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

by Joseph B. Entin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472055194
• ISBN13: 9780472055197
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"