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Tag Archives: Working-Class Studies Association
Essential Work: The 2020 WCSA Awards
At the center of all the chaos and turmoil of 2020 has been the essential worker on the front lines—from healthcare workers treating those infected with COVID-19 to service workers of all kinds who have kept us fed, supplied, and … Continue reading
Re-Placing Class: Community, Politics, Work, and Labor in a Changing World
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
Transnational Reach: 2019 Working-Class Studies Association Awards
As Donald Trump and his ilk on the world stage strip labor protections and human rights under the guise of faux populism, writers, workers, artists, and activists have refused to submit to the chicanery. An international crisis requires an international … Continue reading
Class at the Forefront: 2018 Working-Class Studies Association Awards
Since the 2016 election, the working class has been repeatedly blamed in the news for electing Trump, though as many have argued, the issue of class is a far more complicated and often misunderstood category that defies such summary scapegoating. … Continue reading
Is Class Really Forgotten?: Working-Class Studies Association 2017 Awards
Over the last week, I’ve read a couple of pieces in which elite academics highlight their discovery of the importance of class, both noting how the topic has been neglected by academia and ‘the elite’. In a Financial Times interview … Continue reading
Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?
Academe is a privileged place. It was designed to serve and continues to be dominated by people from educated, well-off backgrounds. Its hierarchical rituals and values define the university as separate from and more “refined” than the so-called “real world.” … Continue reading
Twenty Years of Working-Class Studies
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
Summer Reading from Working-Class Studies
A cultural anthropologist from the “Southeast Side” of Chicago whose family is still living the half-life of deindustrialization three decades after the mills shut down. A community organizer, journalist, teacher, actor, and musician who also writes poetry in Albuquerque, New … Continue reading
Summer Reading: WCSA Award Winners
Each year the Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) issues a number of awards honoring publications in the field: books and articles, documentaries and dissertations. A panel of judges identifies “excellent work that provides insightful and engaging representations of working-class life, culture, … Continue reading
Shout Working Class
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
