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Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present
sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor
from 1840 until the present. With contributions by experts in
American, British, French, German and Swedish culture, this book
examines how literature has shaped the understanding of
socio-economic precarity, a concept that is mostly used to describe
living and working conditions in our contemporary neoliberal and
platform economy. This volume shows that authors tried to develop
new poetic tools and literary techniques to translate the
experience of social regression and insecurity to readers. While
some authors critically engage with normative models of work by
zooming in on the physical and affective backlash of being a
precarious worker, others even find inspiration in their own
situations as writers trying to survive. Furthermore, this volume
shows that precarity is not an exclusively contemporary phenomenon
and that literature has always been a central medium to
(critically) register forms of social insecurity. By retrieving
parts of that archive, this volume paves the way to a historically
nuanced view on contemporary regimes of precarious work.
Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present
sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor
from 1840 until the present. With contributions by experts in
American, British, French, German and Swedish culture, this book
examines how literature has shaped the understanding of
socio-economic precarity, a concept that is mostly used to describe
living and working conditions in our contemporary neoliberal and
platform economy. This volume shows that authors tried to develop
new poetic tools and literary techniques to translate the
experience of social regression and insecurity to readers. While
some authors critically engage with normative models of work by
zooming in on the physical and affective backlash of being a
precarious worker, others even find inspiration in their own
situations as writers trying to survive. Furthermore, this volume
shows that precarity is not an exclusively contemporary phenomenon
and that literature has always been a central medium to
(critically) register forms of social insecurity. By retrieving
parts of that archive, this volume paves the way to a historically
nuanced view on contemporary regimes of precarious work.
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