Seasonal associate

by Geissler, Heike

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Title Statements

Full title :Seasonal associate / Heike Geissler ; translated by Katy Derbyshire ; afterword by Kevin Vennemann.

Summary

No longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a stopgap measure, quickly becomes a descent into humiliation, and Geissler soon begins to internalize the dynamics and nature of the post-capitalist labor market and precarious work. Driven to work at Amazon by financial necessity rather than journalistic ambition, Heike Geissler has nonetheless written the first and only literary account of corporate flex-time employment that offers "freedom" to workers who have become an expendable resource. Shifting between the first and the second person, Seasonal Associate is a nuanced expose of the psychic damage that is an essential working condition with mega-corporations. Geissler has written a twenty-first-century account of how the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Semiotext(e)
Place of Publication:South Pasadena, CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

Notes

Translation of: Saisonarbeit.

Series from publisher's website.

"Original edition published in German in the Volte series, volume 2, edited by Jörn Dege and Mathias Zeiske for Spector Books, 2014."--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:239 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781635900361, 1635900360
oclc:on1029795837
LC Classification:PT2667.E523
Dewey Decimal:331.25729092

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