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Labor in Culture
Peter Hitchcock
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Description for Labor in Culture
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural theory and practice this book examines why this might be so. If globalization unites workers via production and capital flows, it often writes over traditional or progressive forms of unity. Worlds of work have expanded in the last half century, yet labor has receded within cultural discourse. By considering critical and historical concepts in ... Read more
This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural theory and practice this book examines why this might be so. If globalization unites workers via production and capital flows, it often writes over traditional or progressive forms of unity. Worlds of work have expanded in the last half century, yet labor has receded within cultural discourse. By considering critical and historical concepts in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319453989
SKU
V9783319453989
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About Peter Hitchcock
Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed, Oscillate Wildly, and The Long Space.
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