Overview
- Explores how novelists have responded to the changes in the contemporary work economy
- Argues that the growth of flexible labour has produced narratives of nostalgia, generational contest and feelings of insecurity across a range of national contexts
- Unites a wealth of literary perspectives, from critical theorists to American, British and Indian novelists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- worker isolation in literature
- Generation X
- Microserfs
- JPod
- Douglas Coupland
- Maurizio Lazzarato
- Franco Berardi
- literary critique of neoliberalism
- worker uncertainty in literature
- Judith Butler
- Walter Kirn
- David Foster Wallace
- work theory
- labor theory
- Arivand Adiga
- Chetan Bhagat
- Monica Ali
- worker culture
- workforce globalization
- transnational literature
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
Authors: Liam Connell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63928-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63927-7Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87674-0Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63928-4Published: 13 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 246
Topics: Comparative Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature