Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Presentsheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the present. With contributions by experts in American, British, French, German and Swedish culture, this book examines how literature has shaped the understanding of socio-economic precarity, a concept that is mostly used to describe living and working conditions in our contemporary neoliberal and platform economy. This volume shows that authors tried to develop new poetic tools and literary techniques to translate the experience of social regression...
Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Presentsheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the pr...
