New Working-Class Studies /
"We put the working class, in all its varieties, at the center of our work. The new working-class studies is not only about the labor movement, or about workers of any particular kind, or workers in any particular place-even in the workplace. Instead, we ask questions about how class works for...
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca [N.Y.] :
ILR Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- What's New about New Working-Class Studies? / Russo, John / Linkon, Sherry Lee
- PART ONE. NEWWORKING-CLASS STUDIES AT THE INTERSECTIONS
- 1. Gender, Class, and History / Faue, Elizabeth
- 2. "More Than Two Things": The State of the Art of Labor History / Roediger, David
- 3. "All I Wanted Was a Steady Job": The State and African American Workers / Phillips, Kimberley L.
- 4. "This Mill Won't Run No More": Oral History and Deindustrialization / Portelli, Alessandro
- PART TWO. DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
- 5. Under Construction: Working-Class Writing / Lauter, Paul
- 6. Working-Class Geographies: Capital, Space, and Place / Mitchell, Don
- 7. Class as a Question in Economics / Zweig, Michael
- PART THREE. REPRESENTATIONS
- 8. Work Poetry and Working-Class Poetry: The Zip Code of the Heart / Daniels, Jim
- 9. Class Memory: Autobiography and the Art of Forgetting / Strangleman, Tim
- 10. Filming Class / Zaniello, Tom
- 11. "Working Man's Ph.D.": The Music of Working-Class Studies / Rubin, Rachel Lee
- PART FOUR. POLITICS AND EDUCATION
- 12. Politics and the American Class Vernacular / Metzgar, Jack
- 13. New Working-Class Studies in Higher Education / Christopher, Renny
- 14. Building Class Identity: Lessons from Labor Education / Bruno, Robert / Jordan, Lisa
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
