Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History in North America (SPELL 40)

Once a symbol of freedom and opportunity, work has become a symptom of national and international crisis. Yet is the crisis of work necessarily dystopian? This collection of essays, edited by J. Jesse Ramírez and Sixta Quassdorf, explores the richness of work as a linguistic, cultural, and historical concept and the conjunctures that are changing work and its worlds.