Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel [electronic resource]

Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1 Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
References
Part I Work in the Age of Neoliberalism
Chapter 2 Reading Coupland Backwards: Time, Generationality and Work in Generation X, Microserfs and JPod
2.1 Generation X
2.2 Microserfs
2.3 JPod
References
Chapter 3 Precarity and Subjective Life: Matt Thorneâ#x80;#x99;s Eight Minutes Idle and David Szalayâ#x80;#x99;s London and the South East
3.1 Theories of Precarity
3.2 Affective Precarity in Eight Minutes Idle

3.3 Precarity and Solidarity in London and the South EastReferences
Part II The Work of Nations
Chapter 4 Dying to Work: American Nationalism and the End of Productive Labour
4.1 Productive Labour
4.2 Work as Death
4.3 Death and the National Idea
References
Chapter 5 Working Women and the Welfare State: Jenny Turnerâ#x80;#x99;s The Brainstorm
5.1 Inequality and the Neoliberal Economy
5.2 Women Workers and the Refusal of Work
5.3 The Private-Public and the Public-Private
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Chapter 6 Indian Call Centres and the National Idea6.1 Indian English-Language Fiction
6.2 Chetan Bhagat and Indian Neoliberalism
6.3 Selling Indian Tradition in Neelesh Misraâ#x80;#x99;s Once upon a Timezone
6.4 Literary Call-Centre Fiction
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Chapter 7 Conclusion
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