Title Living labor : fiction, film, and precarious work / Joseph B. Entin

Published Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xii , 202 pages) Series Class : Culture Class, culture. 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and index Notes This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Description based on information from the publisher Subject Working class in literature -- 20th century Working class in literature -- 21st century Working class in motion pictures -- 20th century Working class in motion pictures -- 21st century Labor in literature -- 20th century Labor in literature -- 21st century Labor in motion pictures -- 20th century Labor in motion pictures -- 21st century American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism Motion pictures, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism Motion pictures, American -- 21st century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / General American literature Economic history Labor in literature Labor in motion pictures Motion pictures, American Social conditions Working class in literature Working class in motion pictures SUBJECT United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001975 United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century Subject United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher. ISBN 0472903144 9780472903146

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