Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures

Jody Mason

Published by University of Toronto Press 2012

Writing Unemployment

Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures

Jody Mason

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442699670

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About this book

By bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada’s most important writers.

Author / Editor information

Mason Jody :

Jody Mason is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University.

Reviews

Nancy Butler:

‘Writing Unemployment is a fascinating blend of cultural materialism, literary studies, and labour history… The Theoretical and methodological breadth of Jody Mason’s argument is impressive… A rich powerful and useful book.’

Michael Stewart:

‘Jody Mason’s impressive new book deploys joblessness, along with the attendant political and cultural strategies developed to combat it.’

T.Ware:
‘Highly recommended.’

Dean Irvine, Department of English, Dalhousie University and Director, Editing Modernism in Canada :
‘Writing Unemployment offers its readers diverse points of entry into reading the literatures of labour. Its rigorous scholarship and theoretical acuity are evident everywhere. Jody Mason crosses disciplinary boundaries to great effect and, in doing so, challenges ways in which scholars have so far assessed leftist Canadian literature. This study is especially remarkable for its deft incorporation of a vast array of government, political, and economic documents and its highly original and engaging insistence on critical attention to the means and modes of aesthetic production.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Towards a Politics of Mobility: Vagabonds, Hobos, and Pioneers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Chapter Two. The Politics of Unemployment in Leftist Periodical Cultures, 1930–1939 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter Three. Novel Protest in the 1930s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter Four. The Postwar Compact and the National Bildungsroman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Chapter Five. New Left Culture and the New Unemployment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Conclusion: Unemployment in Neoliberal Canada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
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eBook

Published: March 28, 2013
ISBN: 9781442699670