Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures
Jody Mason
This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated in and protested against the discursive framing of unemployment. It argues that Depression-era conceptions of unemployment shaped later twentieth-century understandings of both worklessness and citizenship.
By examining novels, short stories, poetry, manifestos, and agitprop, Jody Mason situates the literary history of the cultural left in a broader context, challenges the dominant literary-historical narrative of the ... Read more
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Reviews for Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures
T.Ware
Choice Magazine vol 51:03:2013
‘Jody Mason’s impressive new book deploys joblessness, along with the attendant political and cultural strategies developed to combat it.’
Michael Stewart
Canadian Literature Spring 2014
‘Writing Unemployment is a fascinating blend of cultural materialism, literary studies, and labour history… The Theoretical and methodological breadth of Jody Mason’s ... Read more