Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers

They Work Hard for the Money

Jennifer Vanderpool, Colin Gardner

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9783031548796
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031548802
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Contemporary Art

Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers: They Work Hard for the Money is a transdisciplinary anthology intersecting art theory praxis, comparative literature, film & media studies, performance art, ethnic studies, gender studies, age & aging, geography, and labor studies. The book investigates and analyzes artwork created by artists or collectives working within the dialogue of Postmodernism and current global arts production. The focus on performative aspect of labor as art and affect becomes more sensate and less about the exploited body of labourers, liberating the representation of waged bodies and further diversifying the field of Working-Class Studies.

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Performative Representations of Working Class Labour as Language Games
• 3. “Just Coal Seams and Heartbroken Miners”: Poetic Representations of the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike in (Post-)Industrial South Yorkshire
• 4. Fainting at Work: Anarchiving Gendered Stereotypes in Silent Cinema at EYE Film Museum
• 5. Have You Ever Heard of Surplus Value? The Hard Work of Representing Sex Work
• 6. Precarious, Heroes and the Art of Cleaning: Reading “Cleaning Women”
• 7. ‘Raising the Red Rag’: Recontextualising Working-Class Women’s Labour Through Nightcleaners (1975) and ’36 to ’77 (1978)
• 8. The Opposite of Looking Is Not Invisibility. The Opposite of Yellow Is Not Gold
• 9. You Don’t Have to Believe Me
• 10. Real Work: Affective Labour and Reality Television
• 11. Political Remix Video and the Working Class: Broadcasting Voices of Resistance
• 12. Puffins, Porgs, Labour, and Lightsabers: Production and Consumption of Cultural Space on the Skellig Coast of Ireland
• Back Matter