Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History in North America
Series
SPELL-Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature
ISBN
978-3-8233-8502-8
Type
book
Date Issued
2021-11-08
Editor(s)
Abstract (De)
Like all fundamental categories, work becomes ever more complex as we examine it more closely. The terms “work,” “labor,” “job,” “employment,” “occupation,” “profession,” “vocation,” “task,” “toil,” “effort,” “pursuit,” and “calling” form a dense web of overlapping and contrasting meanings. Moreover, the analysis of work must contend with how histories of class struggle, gendered and sexual divisions of labor, racial hierarchies, and citizenship regimes have determined who counts as a worker and qualifies for the rights, protections, and social respect thereof. And yet waged work is only the tip of an enormous iceberg that feminist theorists call “socially reproductive labor”—the gendered, mostly unpaid, and hidden work of caring for, feeding, nursing, and teaching the next generation of workers. This collection of essays explores the richness of work as a linguistic, cultural, and historical concept and the conjunctures that are changing work and its worlds.
Language
English
Keywords
Work
USA
Literature and Culture Studies
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Publisher
Gunter Narr Verlag
Publisher place
Tübingen
Volume
40
Pages
218
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
264989