Labor in Culture, Or, Worker of the World(s)

Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed, Oscillate Wildly, and The Long Space.

• Preface.- 1. An Inquiry of Labor.- 2. The Worker Subjects.- 3. On the Cultural Representation of Labor (Value).- 4. Sensing Class in John Berger’s 'Into Their Labors' Trilogy.- 5. A Gift: Workers to Sebastião Salgado.- 6. The Paradox of Moving Labor: Workers in the films of Jia Zhang-ke.-