Orwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values

ISBN-13: 9780230517691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 225 str.

Benjamin James Clarke

Opis

Lowpaid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among lowpaid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for lowskilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition.

Recenzje

'Orwell in Context is a must for every researcher, critic and aficionado of Orwell's work. It provides not only a stimulating and sometimes controversial close-reading of Orwell's fictional and journalistic work but also an insightful social history of Britain in the 1930s and 1940s.' - Kritikon Litterarum

'Ben Clarke's lucid and diligently researched Orwell in Context...provides challenging and persuasive readings of Orwell's work in its social and historical context. As such, Orwell in Context not only deserves a splace in every research library but also on the shelves of every admirer of Orwell's work.' - Christine Berberich, Modernism/Modernity

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Class Gender Theories of Nationalism Englishness Totalitarianism Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

BEN CLARKE has taught at Leader University, Taiwan and the University of Derby, UK. He has written on Orwell, utopian writing, and Taiwan, and is currently working on a literary history of the Nineteen-Thirties.