三个当代劳动力市场叙事中的工资、工作和工业历史

IF 0.2 3区社会学 N/A HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI:10.1017/s0021875823000269

Jeffrey Gonzalez

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本文分析了Alex Rivera的《Sleep Dealer》(2008)、John Wells的《Company Men》(2011)和Lynn Nottage的《Sweat》(2015)，以描绘制造业劳动力在近期美国文化记忆中的地位。关注劳动形式(即“后工业”)的时间线，往往再现了美国对工业劳动美德的持久神话化的元素。诺塔奇和里维拉的作品通过展示工业工作的危险和不稳定性来打破这种意识形态的形象，而《公司男人》则将工业劳动作为男性化、道德更新的手段。我比较了过去几十年里这些关于经济结构调整的观点，仔细研究了美国自我神话的一个关键因素。

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Wages, Work, and the Industrial Past in Three Contemporary Labor Market Narratives

This article analyzes Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer (2008), John Wells's Company Men (2011), and Lynn Nottage's Sweat (2015) to limn the place of manufacturing labor in recent US cultural memory. Timelines that focus on labor forms (i.e. “postindustrial”) often reproduce elements of the persistent US mythologizing of industrial labor's virtues. Nottage's and Rivera's works puncture this ideological figuration by showing the dangers and precarity of industrial work, while Company Men presents industrial labor as a means for masculine, moral renewal. I compare these takes on economic restructuring across the last several decades to scrutinize a crucial element of American self-mythologizing.

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Journal of American Studies HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Journal of American Studies seeks to critique and interrogate the notion of "America", pursuing this through international perspectives on the history, literature, politics and culture of the United States. The Journal publishes original peer-reviewed research and analysis by established and emerging scholars throughout the world, considering US history, politics, literature, institutions, economics, film, popular culture, geography, sociology and related subjects in domestic, continental, hemispheric, and global contexts. Its expanded book review section offers in-depth analysis of recent American Studies scholarship to promote further discussion and debate.