{"product_id":"living-labor-joseph-b-entin-9780472075195","title":"Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eLiving Labor \u003c\/i\u003eexamines 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?amontes, 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, \u003ci\u003eLiving Labor\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cover attribution: Allan Sekula, \u003ci\u003eShipwreck and worker, Istanbul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efrom\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTITANIC's wake\u003c\/i\u003e, 1998\/2000. Courtesy of the Allan Sekula Studio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph B. Entin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472075195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472075195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.71d","brand":"Joseph B. Entin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070732988671,"sku":"9780472075195","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3924f43-bb0a-486c-8701-33fc7cf49970.jpg?v=1685432046","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-labor-joseph-b-entin-9780472075195","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}