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Labor in Culture, Or, Worker of the World(s)

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Peter Hitchcock

    1. The Graduate Center and Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

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  • Acknowledges the continuing transformation of labor without either romanticizing its past formations nor idealizing its current constellations
  • Reads labor’s absence/presence at the volatile meeting point of theories of the subject, representation, and value—an analytic that has not to this point been attempted on the question of labor’s relationship to globalization
  • Offers a critical template on literature, photography, and film that can be extended to other forms in provocative ways

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Worker

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Inquiry of Labor

      • Peter Hitchcock
      Pages 3-45

    3. The Worker Subjects

      • Peter Hitchcock
      Pages 47-74

    4. On the Cultural Representation of Labor (Value)

      • Peter Hitchcock
      Pages 75-100

  3. World(s)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Sensing Class in John Berger’s “Into Their Labors” Trilogy

      • Peter Hitchcock
      Pages 103-132

    3. A Gift: Workers to Sebastião Salgado

      • Peter Hitchcock
      Pages 133-190

    4. The Paradox of Moving Labor: Workers in the Films of Jia Zhangke

      • Peter Hitchcock
      Pages 191-223

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 225-248
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About this book

This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural theory and practice this book examines why this might be so. If globalization unites workers via production and capital flows, it often writes over traditional or progressive forms of unity. Worlds of work have expanded in the last half century, yet labor has receded within cultural discourse. By considering critical and historical concepts in the workers’ inquiry, the subject, and value, and provocative projects in cultural representation itself, this study expands our lexicon of labor to understand more fully what “workers of the world” means under globalization. As such the book offers broad appeal to students and teachers of Global and Cultural Studies and will interest all those who take seriously how the worker is articulated at a global scale. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Graduate Center and Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

    Peter Hitchcock

About the author

Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed, Oscillate Wildly, and The Long Space.

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