Joseph B. Entin is Professor of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

“Living Labor aims to update the critical discussion of contemporary American working-class literature to reflect the complex and contested realities of the current era, in which class itself has become increasingly contingent. The book is clear, persuasive, informative, and thought-provoking.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Narratives of Living LaborChapter 1. “We are the Planet”: Impossible Solidarities in Russell Banks’s Continental DriftChapter 2. “Maps of Labor”: Globalization, Migration, and Contemporary Working-Class LiteratureChapter 3. Living Labor, Dead Labor: Cinema, Solidarity, and NecrocapitalismChapter 4. “The Uprooted Worker at the Center of the World”: Labor, Migration, and Precarity on the Urban Underside of Independent CinemaCoda: Forms of Solidarity in Precarious TimesIndex

Joseph B. Entin is Professor of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

“Living Labor aims to update the critical discussion of contemporary American working-class literature to reflect the complex and contested realities of the current era, in which class itself has become increasingly contingent. The book is clear, persuasive, informative, and thought-provoking.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Narratives of Living LaborChapter 1. “We are the Planet”: Impossible Solidarities in Russell Banks’s Continental DriftChapter 2. “Maps of Labor”: Globalization, Migration, and Contemporary Working-Class LiteratureChapter 3. Living Labor, Dead Labor: Cinema, Solidarity, and NecrocapitalismChapter 4. “The Uprooted Worker at the Center of the World”: Labor, Migration, and Precarity on the Urban Underside of Independent CinemaCoda: Forms of Solidarity in Precarious TimesIndex

Joseph B. Entin is Professor of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

“Living Labor aims to update the critical discussion of contemporary American working-class literature to reflect the complex and contested realities of the current era, in which class itself has become increasingly contingent. The book is clear, persuasive, informative, and thought-provoking.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Narratives of Living LaborChapter 1. “We are the Planet”: Impossible Solidarities in Russell Banks’s Continental DriftChapter 2. “Maps of Labor”: Globalization, Migration, and Contemporary Working-Class LiteratureChapter 3. Living Labor, Dead Labor: Cinema, Solidarity, and NecrocapitalismChapter 4. “The Uprooted Worker at the Center of the World”: Labor, Migration, and Precarity on the Urban Underside of Independent CinemaCoda: Forms of Solidarity in Precarious TimesIndex