04646oam 22007934a 450 991064229920332120230622191421.00-472-90314-4(CKB)5860000000283123(OCoLC)1354571145(MdBmJHUP)musev2_109848(MiAaPQ)EBC7167759(Au-PeEL)EBL7167759(OCoLC)1369671300(EXLCZ)99586000000028312320221213h20232023 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLiving Labor Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work /Joseph B. Entin1st ed.Ann Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,2023.©2023.1 online resourceClass : Culture0-472-07519-5 0-472-05519-4 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.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.Class, cultureMotion pictures, American21st centuryHistory and criticismMotion pictures, American20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature21st centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLabor in motion pictures21st centuryLabor in motion pictures20th centuryLabor in literature21st centuryLabor in literature20th centuryWorking class in motion pictures21st centuryWorking class in motion pictures20th centuryWorking class in literature21st centuryWorking class in literature20th centuryUnited StatesSocial conditions21st centuryUnited StatesSocial conditions20th centuryUnited StatesEconomic conditions21st centuryUnited StatesEconomic conditions20th centuryMotion pictures, AmericanHistory and criticism.Motion pictures, AmericanHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Labor in motion picturesLabor in motion picturesLabor in literatureLabor in literatureWorking class in motion picturesWorking class in motion picturesWorking class in literatureWorking class in literature810.9352624Entin Joseph B.1280848Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910642299203321Living Labor3017532UNINA