TY - BOOK AU - Entin,Joseph B. ED - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), TI - Living labor: fiction, film, and precarious work T2 - Class : Culture SN - 0472903144 AV - PS173.W65 U1 - 810.9352624 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Ann Arbor, Michigan PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Working class in literature KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Working class in motion pictures KW - Labor in literature KW - Labor in motion pictures KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Motion pictures, American KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Economic history KW - Social conditions KW - United States KW - Economic conditions KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and index N2 - 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 V�iramontes, 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3515058 ER -