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Labor in culture, or, Worker of the world(s) / Peter Hitchcock.

Author/creator Hitchcock, Peter author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright Notice ©2017
Descriptionxvii, 248 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject(s)
Portion of title Labor in culture
Portion of title Worker of the world(s)
Portion of title Workers of the world(s)
Series Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society
Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society. ^A1344585
Contents An inquiry of labor -- The worker subjects -- On the cultural representation of labor (value) -- Sensing class in John Berger's "Into their labors" trilogy -- A gift : workers to Sebastião Salgado -- The paradox of moving labor : workers in the films of Jia Zhangke.
Abstract 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.
General note"The book title should read "Labor in Culture, or, Worker of the World(s)" which has been printed previously "Labor in Culture, or, Workers of the World(s) by mistake"--Title page of an unnumbered later printing.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
ISBN9783319453989 (hardcover)
ISBN331945398X (hardcover)
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