Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects
Representations of Work in Post-Fordist France
Series: Studies in Modern and Contemporary France; 7;
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Product details:
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Date of Publication 1 October 2020
- ISBN 9781789622140
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 239x163 mm
- Weight 586 g
- Language English 100
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Short description:
This study offers close readings of cinematic and literary representations of the contemporary French workplace, focusing on the dilemmas faced by French workers of different ages, sexes, classes, and ethnicities, workers depicted as being caught between the apparent certainties of French republican citizenship and the precarious forms of subjectivity characteristic of post-Fordism.
MoreLong description:
Over recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profound shift in contemporary French economy, culture and society. Engaging with work in political economy and sociology, the book sketches a new interpretative framework, the better to understand the nature and implications of these profound changes. It examines the challenges such changes have posed to fundamental French republican values, arguing they have opened up a rift between older notions of French republican citizenship and the precarious forms of subjectivity characteristic of post-Fordist labour. The book traces the symptoms of this rift in a range of cinematic and literary representations of the contemporary workplace, as these depict the dilemmas faced, the trajectories followed, and the geographical regions inhabited by French workers of different ages, sexes, social classes, and ethnicities.
“This is a well-written and clearly argued treatment of the implications of a post-Fordist regime of economic management on employment in France, as seen through literary and filmic representations."
Nick Parsons, Cardiff University
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES
Chapter One: The Crisis of Fordism. Symptoms and Diagnoses
Chapter Two: Modulating Work and Welfare
PART TWO: CHARACTER TYPES, TRAJECTORIES, UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIES
Chapter Three: Modulated masculinities
Chapter Four: Femmes Fortes
Chapter Five: Doomed Youth
Chapter Six: Sans Papiers
Conclusion
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