Mary McGlynn

Faculty Fellow

Mary McGlynn is an Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, and the author of Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). She has published and spoken on James Kelman, Roddy Doyle, and other contemporary Scottish and Irish writers, as well as on film, country music, cultural studies, and Irish America. Her research focuses on literary experimentation and nonstandard Englishes; the intersection of formal and stylistic techniques with regional, class, and gender politics; and the literary and geographic dynamics of space.

Participating Years

2010–2011

Labor/Crisis/Protest

Labor processes and conditions of employment in almost all sectors of the economy and most of the world have been revolutionized over the last thirty years. Generally, the share of wages in gross domestic product has declined while the share taken by capital (finance in particular) has soared. The response (or lack of it) to these new conditions has been patchy, raising questions of the state of political consciousness and political subjectivity among affected populations. Where, many ask, is the outrage and why the lack of mass protest and mass movement?