'Highly recommended.'--T.Ware, Choice Magazine vol 51:03:2013 'Jody Mason's impressive new book deploys joblessness, along with the attendant political and cultural strategies developed to combat it.' --Michael Stewart, Canadian Literature Spring 2014 'Writing Unemploymentis a fascinating blend of cultural materialism, literary studies, and labour history The Theoretical and methodological breadth of Jody Mason's argument is impressive A rich powerful and useful book.' --Nancy Butler, Labour/Le Travail vol 74:2013 'Writing Unemployment offers its readers diverse points of entry into reading the literatures of labour. Its rigorous scholarship and theoretical acuity are evident everywhere. Jody Mason crosses disciplinary boundaries to great effect and, in doing so, challenges ways in which scholars have so far assessed leftist Canadian literature. This study is especially remarkable for its deft incorporation of a vast array of government, political, and economic documents and its highly original and engaging insistence on critical attention to the means and modes of aesthetic production.

' --Dean Irvine, Department of English, Dalhousie University and Director, Editing Modernism in Canada.