@article{Mirrlees_2015, title={A Critique of the Millennial: A Retreat from and Return to Class}, volume={26}, url={https://alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/article/view/22321}, abstractNote={<span>Since the turn of the millennium, millions of people born between the lateĀ </span><span>1970s and the late 1990s have been categorized as millennials. A media discourse tells people what a millennial is and is not, shaping how those people it depicts as millennialmay perceive themselves and how others perceive them. This paper examines fourmedia representations of the millennial: a member of a youth cohort, a consumer, aworker to be managed, and an immiserated victim of hard times. It argues that theseĀ </span><span>four media representations of the millennial distort the capitalist determinations ofmillennial life and labour and prevent the millennials from seeing themselves as part ofthe working class. By way of a critique of these four ideological media representations of the class-less millennial, the paper forwards a historical-materialist account of themillennial working class in a new capitalist millennium.</span>}, journal={Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research}, author={Mirrlees, Tanner}, year={2015}, month={Jan.} }