Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel

1. Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
Liam Connell

Part I. Work in the Age of Neoliberalism

2. Reading Coupland Backwards: Time, Generationality and Work in Generation X, Microserfs and JPod

Liam Connell

3. Precarity and Subjective Life: Matt Thorne’s Eight Minutes Idle and David Szalay’s London and the South East

Liam Connell

Part II. The Work of Nations

4. Dying to Work: American Nationalism and the End of Productive Labour
Liam Connell

5. Working Women and the Welfare State: Jenny Turner’s The Brainstorm

Liam Connell

6. Indian Call Centres and the National Idea
Liam Connell

7. Conclusion
Liam Connell

Keywords: Literature, Comparative Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature