Tag Archives: Working-Class Studies Association

Class at the Forefront: 2018 Working-Class Studies Association Awards

Posted on May 28, 2018 by

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 →

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Is Class Really Forgotten?: Working-Class Studies Association 2017 Awards

Posted on May 22, 2017 by

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 →

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Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?

Posted on May 31, 2016 by

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 →

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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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Summer Reading from Working-Class Studies

Posted on June 23, 2014 by

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 →

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Summer Reading: WCSA Award Winners

Posted on June 3, 2013 by

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 →

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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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