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Author:
Connell, Liam, author.
Title:
Precarious labour and the contemporary novel / Liam Connell.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
x, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Englisch
Roman
Prekariat
Arbeit--Motiv
Büroarbeit--Motiv
Work in literature.
Employees in literature.
Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Work in literature.
Precarious employment.
Employees in literature.
Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Employees in literature.
Fiction.
Work in literature.
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
7 Conclusion. Part I Work in the age of neoliberalism -- 2 Reading Coupland backwards: time, generationality and work in Generation X, Microserfs, and JPod -- 3 Precarity and subjective life: Matt Thorne's Eight Minutes Idle and David Szalay's London and the South East -- Part II The work of nations -- 4 Dying to work: American nationalism and the end of productive labour -- 5 Working women and the welfare state: Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm -- 6 Indian call centres and the national idea -- 7 Conclusion.
ISBN:
9781137461926
1137461926
3319639277
9783319639277
OCLC:
(OCoLC)992746488
LCCN:
2017948276
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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