Archive:Academia
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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
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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
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WCP: Going Public with Working-Class Studies
Discussions on the working-class in media and economics often neglect the depth and nuances of the working-class many academics have become familiar with. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Sherry Linkon addresses the need for working-class studies to be more integrated with lay understandings of the working-class.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Preregister for Social Justice in Your Fall Semester
The best problem to have is too many good options. At Georgetown University, there is an abundance of undergraduate courses that engage labor, worker rights, or social justice more broadly. To help
Category: Labor Studies
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Make Social Justice Part of Your Spring Semester
One of the greatest parts about attending Georgetown University is the abundance of undergraduate courses that engage social justice, including labor and worker rights! To make course selection easi
Category: Labor Studies
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WCP: Now Is the Time: Working-Class Studies in the Trump Era
After endless analyses and commentaries on the factors that propelled Donald Trump to the Presidency, it is time to prepare for the road ahead. In this week's post, Sherry Linkon provides a blueprin
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?
Recent changes in higher education have had a profound impact on academics who come from working-class backgrounds. In this week's Working-Class Perspectives post, Sherry Linkon contemplates the cla
Category: Visiting Scholars