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Book SynopsisBy bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada's most important writers.
Trade Review'Highly recommended.' -- T.Ware Choice Magazine vol 51:03:2013 'Jody Mason's impressive new book deploys joblessness, along with the attendant political and cultural strategies developed to combat it.' -- Michael Stewart Canadian Literature Spring 2014 'Writing Unemployment is a fascinating blend of cultural materialism, literary studies, and labour history... The Theoretical and methodological breadth of Jody Mason's argument is impressive... A rich powerful and useful book.' -- Nancy Butler Labour/Le Travail vol 74:2013
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Towards A Politics of Mobility: Vagabonds, Hobos, and Pioneers 2. The Politics of Unemployment in Leftist Periodical Cultures, 1930-39 3. Novel Protest in the 1930s 4. The Postwar Compact and the National Bildungsroman 5. New Left Culture and the New Unemployment Conclusion: Unemployment in Neoliberal Canada
