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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 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?" 330 $a"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 Alcala? 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, Alcala? offers a systematic and innovative account of British literary treatments of work. 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