Monthly Archives: June 2011

Jerk in Charge

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

The word “boss” traces its roots to the Dutch word “baas,” meaning master, and some have argued that it caught on in the Americas as a way for workers to avoid the word master and thus the pairings of “master … Continue reading →

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Poetry and People’s History: Places We Called Home

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

Poetry is not everyone’s cup of tea, I know.  Modernist poetry in particular has a reputation for being obscure and self-obsessed.   But there is also a vein of contemporary poetry that speaks powerfully to our condition as a society, and … Continue reading →

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Anger Management, Anyone?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Compared to the US, Britain is generally regarded as having more rigid, tightly enforced, and widely understood social class barriers. With its well-known scene of blindfolded children moving on a conveyor belt toward becoming ingredients in a social sausage, the … Continue reading →

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Working-Class Knowledge and School Knowledge

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

A couple of hours after I posted a recent blog exploring whether college education is the best option for working-class students, our administrative assistant at the Center for Working-Class Studies came into my office, saying she wanted to talk with … Continue reading →

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