"Living Labor aims to update the critical discussion of contemporary American working-class literature to reflect the complex and contested realities of the current era, in which class itself has become increasingly contingent. The book is clear, persuasive, informative, and thought-provoking."
--Sherry Linkon, Georgetown University

"Living Labor offers a vocabulary for a global, post-Fordist working class, through a number of important, sometimes well-known, sometimes obscure novels and films that document working-class characters in the U.S. from the 1980s to the present. The book is lucid, precise, and engaging, and helps us to understand how 'class' and its many representations are made and remade through the contradictions of capitalism. Entin has written a necessary and provocative intervention into the field."
--Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University South Bend