TY - BOOK AU - Entin,Joseph B. ED - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), ED - Project Muse. TI - Living Labor : : Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work / T2 - Class : Culture SN - 9780472903146 PY - 2023/// CY - Ann Arbor, Michigan PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Motion pictures, American KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - American literature KW - Labor in motion pictures KW - Labor in literature KW - Working class in motion pictures KW - Working class in literature KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Open Access 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 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/109848/ ER -