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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
The Future of Working-Class Studies
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
Now Is the Time: Working-Class Studies in the Trump Era
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
2016 WCSA Awards: The Best of Working-Class Studies
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
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
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
Still Learning from the Scholarship Boy
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
“Transmedia” Conversations: Working-Class Studies and Expanding Audiences
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
