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UNINA9910511314903321 |
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Autore |
del Valle Alcalá Roberto |
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British working-class fiction : narratives of refusal and the struggle against work / / Roberto del Valle Alcalá |
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London : , : Bloomsbury, , 2016 |
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1-4742-7377-7 |
1-4742-7376-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Home in literature |
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Social values in literature |
Women in literature |
Working class authors - England |
Working class in literature |
Working class writings, English - History and criticism |
Working class - England - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Introduction: British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work -- 2. Between Capitalist Subsumption and Proletarian Independence: Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, and the Post-war Working Class. 2.1. From Consensus to Antagonism, or, the Post-war Rebirth of Subjectivity ; 2.2. From the Factory to the Social: Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner' ; 2.3. Capitalist Subjectivation in David Storey's This Sporting Life -- 3. Reproductive Work and Working-class Resistance in Transition: Nell Dunn and Pat Barker. 3.1. Desire and the Labour of Subjectivity in Nell Dunn's Up the Junction and Poor Cow ; 3.2. Reproduction in Revolt: Biopolitics in Pat Barker's Union Street ; 3.3. Prostitution, Death, and |
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the Subversion of Life in Blow Your House Down -- 4. Proletarian Exodus and Resistance in James Kelman and Irvine Welsh. 4.1. The Collapse of Measure: Postmodern Abstraction and Proletarian Flight in James Kelman ; 4.2. Beyond Civil Society: On Irvine Welsh's Skagboys -- 5. Work in Crisis: Madness and (the Unworking of) Civilisation in Monica Ali and Joanna Kavenna. 5.1. Nomad Bodies, Precarious Minds: On Monica Ali's In the Kitchen ; 5.2. 'Madness, or, the Absence of Work': On Joanna Kavenna's Inglorious -- 6. Conclusion: A Workless Future for British Fiction?" |
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"British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcalá argues that throughout this period, working-class writing developed new strategies of resistance against the social discipline imposed by capitalist work. As the latter becomes an increasingly pervasive and inescapable form of control and as its nature grows abstract, diffuse, and precarious, writing about it acquires a new antagonistic quality, producing new forms of subjective autonomy and new imaginaries of a possible life beyond its purview. By tracing a genealogy of working-class authors and texts that in various ways defined themselves against the social discipline imposed by post-war capitalism, this book analyses the strategies adopted by workers in their attempts to identify and combat the source of their oppression. Drawing on the work of a wide range of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, Alcalá offers a systematic and innovative account of British literary treatments of work. The book includes close readings of fiction by Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Nell Dunn, Pat Barker, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Monica Ali, and Joanna Kavenna."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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UNINA9910812104203321 |
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Titolo |
Changing social equality : the Nordic welfare model in the 21st century / / edited by Jon Kvist [and three others] [[electronic resource]] |
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Bristol : , : Policy, , 2012 |
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1-4473-0558-2 |
1-283-35064-5 |
9786613350640 |
1-84742-661-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Welfare state - Scandinavia |
Equality - Scandinavia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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CHANGING SOCIAL EQUALITY; Contents; List of tables and figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Changing social inequality and the Nordic welfare model; Introduction: inequality on the rise?; More than money: the Nordic welfare strand of welfare research; Aim of the book; Studying changes in social inequality; The Nordic welfare model and inequality; Welfare regimes and inequality; Pressures on the Nordic welfare model and inequality; Structure of the book; 2. Anti-immigration attitudes, support for redistribution and party choice in Europe; Introduction |
Xenophobia and redistributionAnti-solidarity hypothesis; Distraction hypothesis; Conclusion; Appendix: Parties included in European Social Survey coded as Left by country; 3. Do we all (dis)like the same welfare state? Configurations of public support for the welfare state in comparative perspective; Introduction; Theoretical background; Data, variables and methods; Results; Conclusion; Appendix; 4. Eroding minimum income protection in the Nordic countries? Reassessing the Nordic model of social assistance; Nordic social assistance; Data |
The generosity of social assistance and minimum income benefitsThe extent of social assistance and means-tested benefits; Poverty and |
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redistribution; Conclusion; 5. Equality in the social service state: Nordic childcare models in comparative perspective; Introduction; Childcare and equality: making the links; Care for children in Nordic countries; Nordic childcare in comparative perspective; Meeting family care needs: are all measures equal?; Conclusion |
6. Welfare state institutions, unemployment and poverty: comparative analysis of unemployment benefits and labour market participation in 15 European Union countriesIntroduction; Labour market and income: our research questions; Data and methods; Characteristics of the labour market: Nordic employment regime; Generosity of unemployment insurance: Nordic generosity for the low-income earners; Consequences of changes in labour market positions: visible regime patterns; Two-step approach: controlling for confounding variables blurs the regime boundaries |
Discussion: diminishing differences but still a model of its own7. Social inequalities in health: the Nordic welfare state in a comparative context; Introduction; Defining, measuring and explaining health inequalities1; Social determinants, welfare states and population health2; Nordic health inequalities in a European context; Welfare state change and health inequalities; Explaining Nordic health inequalities3; Conclusion; 8. Income inequality and poverty: do the Nordic countries still constitute a family of their own?; Introduction; Welfare regimes and poverty and inequality |
Poverty, income and income inequality: definitions and measurements |
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Taking a comparative perspective, this book casts new light on the changing inequalities in Europe. |
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