Leigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, author of Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s, and coeditor of Reading Capitalist Realism.
Preface: The Argument ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Socially Engaged Art and Decommodified Labor 1
1. Art Student, Art Worker: The Decommodified Labor of Studentdom 34
2. Institutions as Art: The Collective Forms of Decommodified Labor 75
3. Art Worker Animal: Animals as Socially Engaged Artists in a Post-Labor Era 118
4. The Artwork of Children's Labor: Socially Engaged Art and the Future of Work 157
Epilogue: Liberal Arts 198
Notes 205
Bibliography 239
Index 249