Archive: Working-Class Studies Association

• WCP: Essential Work: The 2020 WCSA Awards

  At the center of all the chaos and turmoil of 2020 has been the essential worker on the front lines—from healthcare workers treating those infected with COVID-19 to service workers of all kinds who have kept us fed, supplied, and safe while putting their own safety at risk, all too often in jobs which are precarious and underpaid. Working-class life, experience, and precarity have has perhaps not been more central or important in recent memory.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Cherie Rankin, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, WCSA, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies Association

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

  Popular media often portrays working-class identities without the nuance and depth inherent to working-class lives. In Working-Class Perspectives, Michele Fazio highlights the works from multiple disciplines that earned the 2018 Working-Class Studies Association Awards.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Academia, Awards, John Russo, Michele Fazio, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies Association

• WCP: The Future of Working-Class Studies

  With nearly a decade and a half since the last publication of a working-class academic collection, it is time for an update on the field. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Tim Strangleman, Michele Fazio, and Christie Launius discuss the Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies, their upcoming collection of working class academia, specifically edited to showcase the history of working-class activism, the broad diversity within working-class studies, and potential paths forward given the challenges facing the current generation of working-class activists and academics.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Academia, Christie Launius, Michele Fazio, Tim Strangleman, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies, Working-Class Studies Association

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

  While commentators are right to call for an increased focus on class, the notion that class as a category of analysis has been neglected by academics is contradicted by tremendous recent scholarship in the working-class studies field. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Tim Strangleman highlights some of the best books and articles awarded by the Working-Class Studies Association this spring.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Angela Stuesse, David LaBounty, Diana Garvin, Gabriel Thompson, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, WCP, WCSA, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies Association

• WCP: 2016 WCSA Awards: The Best of Working-Class Studies

  On June 9-11 at the How Class Works conference hosted at SUNY Stony Brook, the Working-Class Studies Association will recognize the best new work in the field. In this week's Working-Class Perspecti

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Bottom Dog Press, Christie Launius, Douglas Yarrow, John Russo, Literature, Mike Yarrow, Poetry, Ruth Yarrow, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies, Working-Class Studies Association

• Fighting Inequality: Joint Conference of LAWCHA and WCSA

  Fighting Inequality: Class, Race, and Power is a joint conference of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Working-Class Studies Association. The Kalmanovitz Initiative will host the conference from May 28-31, 2015, at Georgetown University.

  Category: Events Tags: Labor and Working-Class History Association, Working-Class Studies Association

• Smokestack Nostalgia?: Understanding Work Heritage in an Age of Austerity

  On Tuesday, October 14, Professor Tim Strangleman of the University of Kent will explore some of the critical discourse that has emerged from the process of deindustrialization. What does it tell us about the wider meanings and values attached to work in the past and present?

  Category: Events Tag: Working-Class Studies Association