Tag Archives: working-class studies

The Future of Working-Class Studies

Posted on May 21, 2018 by

In 2005, John Russo and Sherry Linkon published their edited collection New Working-Class Studies, drawing together a rich array of writers across a range of disciplines. This was by no means the first book that addressed working-class life and culture, … Continue reading →

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Now Is the Time: Working-Class Studies in the Trump Era

Posted on January 2, 2017 by

I watched President Obama’s inauguration eight years ago with colleagues with whom I had been teaching and organizing around issues of race, class, sexuality, and gender for almost two decades.  That America had elected a black man to its highest … Continue reading →

Posted in Contributors, Issues, Sherry Linkon, Working-Class Politics | Tagged , , , | 9 Comments

2016 WCSA Awards: The Best of Working-Class Studies

Posted on June 6, 2016 by

As the immediate past president of the Working-Class Studies Association, it was my task this year (and also my pleasure) to organize the association’s annual awards process. As this year’s organizer, I was caught up in the logistical and clerical … 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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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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Still Learning from the Scholarship Boy

Posted on May 6, 2014 by

2014 is still young, but we have lost a handful of British working-class scholars and activists who have been pivotal for working-class studies and politics, starting with cultural studies legend Stuart Hall, who died in February. In March, Tim Strangleman … Continue reading →

Posted in Class and Education, Contributors, Issues, Kathy M. Newman, Sherry Linkon, Working-Class Culture | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

“Transmedia” Conversations: Working-Class Studies and Expanding Audiences

Posted on August 26, 2013 by

A classic conundrum of academic writing about social class is that its style and concerns often exclude readers who are themselves from working-class backgrounds. As a teen-ager growing up in an industrial area of Chicago, I remember reading a classic … Continue reading →

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