Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers: They Work Hard for the Money

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Vanderpool; Colin Gardner

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Performative Representations of Working Class Labour as Language Games
References
Chapter 3: “Just Coal Seams and Heartbroken Miners”: Poetic Representations of the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike in (Post-)Industrial South Yorkshire
Introduction
Writing the Strike
Theorising Miners’ Strike Poetry: Working-class, Non-professional, or Both?
Reading the Strike
Which Side Are You On?
Against All the Odds
Reimagining the Strike?
Barnsley U3A Writers’ Group and the Tom Treddlehoyle Sessions
Post-industrial Strike Poetry
Social Haunting: 40 Years On
References
Chapter 4: Fainting at Work: Anarchiving Gendered Stereotypes in Silent Cinema at EYE Film Museum
Anarchiving Subjectification at EYE Film Museum
Silent Cinema Depiction of Women as Exhausted Workers
Labour in the Women’s Sphere: Witches, Artists and Wives
Making Artwork with Archival Materials
Moving Forward: Anarchiving Women’s Labour and Impacting Representation
References
Films
Chapter 5: Have You Ever Heard of Surplus Value? The Hard Work of Representing Sex Work
The Mother of Sex Work
From Stigma to Work
The Whore Gaze
Representing Sex Work
Who’s Allowed to Make Money?
The Counter Narrative: What You Don’t See
The Workers: Debbie Doesn’t Do It for Free
Thorny Issues
To Conclude
References
Chapter 6: Precarious, Heroes and the Art of Cleaning: Reading “Cleaning Women”
Introduction
The Cleaner as a Literary Sensation: Miraculé
The Cleaner Must Be Represented
The Cleaner as a Hero
The Art of Cleaning
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: ‘Raising the Red Rag’: Recontextualising Working-Class Women’s Labour Through Nightcleaners (1975) and ’36 to ’77 (1978)
References
Chapter 8: The Opposite of Looking Is Not Invisibility. The Opposite of Yellow Is Not Gold
Reference
Chapter 9: You Don’t Have to Believe Me
Past
Present
Future
References
Oral History Interviews (2022)
Chapter 10: Real Work: Affective Labour and Reality Television
Introduction
Affective Labour in Practice
Historical Context: ‘House-Based Reality’
Theoretical Context: Women’s Work, Affect and Labour
Lived Experience of Affective Labour
Affective Labour as Byproductive
Intersectional Perspectives on Affective Labour in Reality Television
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Political Remix Video and the Working Class: Broadcasting Voices of Resistance
Introduction
Working-Class Studies and Political Remix Video
Connection with Other Traditions
Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck (2010)
I Am Not Moving (2011)
Cameron’s Conference Rap (2014)
Final Remarks
References
Chapter 12: Puffins, Porgs, Labour, and Lightsabers: Production and Consumption of Cultural Space on the Skellig Coast of Ireland
Introduction
Portmagee
Ahch-To
Production and Consumption
Conclusion
References
Index