Tag Archives: Center for Working-Class Studies

Re-Placing Class: Community, Politics, Work, and Labor in a Changing World

Posted on November 25, 2019 by

This week, we’re posting something a little different: the call for papers for this year’s Working-Class Studies Association conference. This year’s gathering marks the 25th anniversary of the conference that led to the founding of the Center for Working-Class Studies, … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years of Working-Class Studies

Posted on May 25, 2015 by

This week, the Working-Class Studies Association will hold its annual conference. This year’s conference is special in two ways. First, this year the WCSA is partnering with the Labor and Working-Class History Association for a joint conference. With two organizations … Continue reading →

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Shout Working Class

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

Nearly 18 years ago, at the closing session of a conference on Working-Class Lives at Youngstown State University, we posed this question: if there were a Center for Working-Class Studies, what should it be doing?  We heard over 100 suggestions, … Continue reading →

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