Archive:WCSA

• 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: 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