Jill Magi s new book comprised of fiction, poetry, and archival research LABOR explores relations between workplace and workers, race-class-gender, the institution and the body, the personal budget and the economy, the archive and undisciplined paper trails. An employee handbook sequence runs throughout the text, providing a set of directions for ritual practices toward individual agency and workplace/worker transformation. But unlike the archived ideologies and hopes of traditional labor history that LABOR s characters eventually abandon or never fully embraced, the transformation does not look like traditional progress or reform."