Representations of work - pictures, narratives, representations

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Representations of work - pictures, narratives, representations

Knud Andresen, Michaela Kuhnhenne, Jürgen Mittag, Stefan Müller (eds.)
Dietz-Verlag
Bonn 2018
304 pages
ISBN-10: 3801242471 

How is and was work represented and perceived in society? As a source of pride and future orientation, but also as a place of misery, physical effort, subordination and exploitation. With its interdisciplinary approach, this scholarly anthology directs attention to places, media and figures in the representation of work.

Industrial activities, the "old" labour movement, but also more recent phenomena such as the precarious employment of highly qualified workers or the invoked end of the working society are examined - the relationships between individuals and collectives, between subjects and objects, between models and images. Political, visual and narrative representations of work in the 20th century will be examined from a historical perspective.

With contributions by Knud Andresen, Lars Bluma, Torsten Erdbrügger, Jana Hawig, Arne Hordt, Agneta Jilek, Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten, Sabine Kritter, Michaela Kuhnhenne, Jürgen Mittag, Stefan Moitra, Stefan Müller, Daniela Mysliwietz-Fleiß, Inga Probst, Cora Rok, Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch and Rudolf Tschirbs.