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Art, Labour and American Life: 1930–2020

By Ben Hickman

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2023
ISBN
303141490X, 9783031414909
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5264393 bytes)
Pages
299\298
Time added
2023-11-22 04:35:44

Description

This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work’s transformations over the last century. Describing the complex relations between cultural forms and the work practices, Art, Labour and American Life explores everything from Fordism to feminization, from white-collar ascendency to zero hours precarity, as these things have manifested in painting, performance art, poetry, fiction, philosophy and music. Labour, all but invisible in cultural histories of the period, despite the fact most Americans have spent most of their lives doing it, here receives an urgent re-emphasis, as we witness work’s radical redefinition across the world.

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