
Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
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1 Introduction.- 2 Reading Coupland Backwards: Time, Generationality and Work in Generation X, Microserfs and JPod.- 3 Precarity and Subjective Life: Matt Thorne's Eight Minutes Idle and David Szalay's London and the South East.- 4 Dying to Work: American Nationalism and the End of Productive Labour.- 5 Working Women and the Welfare State: Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm.- 6 Conclusion.