Art, Labour and American Life: 1930–2020

Art, Labour and American Life: 1930–2020
ISBN-10
303141490X
ISBN-13
9783031414909
Category
Social Science
Pages
298
Language
English
Published
2023-10-21
Publisher
Springer Nature
Author
Ben Hickman

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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