Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION Denaturalizing the Slow Violence of Work 1
4. Section One QUESTIONING “ANTHROPOCENE” FRAMES
5. 1 ▶ WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE The Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Golden Spike 35
6. 2 ▶ ANTHROPOCENE PERFORMANCE Work without Ends 51
7. Section Two RETHINKING WORK IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
8. 3 ▶ UNFREE LABOR Slavery and the Anthropocene in the Americas 71
9. 4 ▶ THE RISE OF THE NOVEL AND THE NARRATIVE LABOR OF HORSES IN THE ENGLISH NOVEL OF THE EARLY ANTHROPOCENE 95
10. 5 ▶ RECONSTRUCTION AGRARIANISM IN DOUGLASS AND BURROUGHS Relational Labor against White Supremacist Ownership 113
11. 6 ▶ THE WORK OF THE GLOBE How the Unisphere, Icon of the 1964–1965 World’s Fair, Illuminates the Nature of Modern Work 129
12. 7 ▶ LEISURE AND LIGHT WORK Coming of Age in Wendell Berry’s and Thomas Pynchon’s Novels of Extraction 149
13. Section Three LEARNING FROM LEISURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
14. 8 ▶ WALKING THE LINE BETWEEN LEISURE AND LABOR Dorothy Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau in the English Lake District 169
15. 9 ▶ LABOR, LEISURE, AND LOVE OF COUNTRY Rangering in the Age of the Alt-NPS 186
16. 10 ▶ LEARNING TO PLAY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE Winter Recreation and the Politics of Climate Change 202
17. 11 ▶ WEAVING “LIFEWORKINGS” Goanna Walking between Humanism and Posthumanism, Dharug Women’s Way 220
18. CODA ▶ PEDAGOGICAL ANTHROPO/SCENES Reviving Craft in the Academy 239
19. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 253
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY 255
21. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 277
22. INDEX 281