Tag Archives: working-class studies

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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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 →

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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