Archive: Working-Class Studies
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Schedule Social Justice for the Fall 2019 Semester
Georgetown offers an array of courses delving into issues of social justice taught by brilliant professors with expertise and real-life experiences in their field. We've highlighted some of these cour
Categories: Labor Studies, Uncategorized
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Preregister for Social Justice in the Spring Semester
Georgetown offers an array of courses delving into issues of social justice taught by brilliant professors with expertise and real-life experiences in their field. We've highlighted some of these cou
Category: Labor Studies
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Add Social Justice During Fall Semester Add/Drop
Completing your schedule can be a challenge. Thankfully, Georgetown offers an abundance of classes addressing issues of social and economic justice. We've curated a list of many of those courses here
Category: Labor Studies
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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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WCP: Low Cotton: A Class on Class
Students will only understand class politics and working-class culture if it is part of their college curriculum. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Helen Diana Eidson describes how she creatively engaged her students at the University of Alabama on the issue of class through the history of Alabama cotton sharecroppers.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Spring into a Semester of Social Justice
With hundreds of courses offered each semester, it can hard to identify classes and professors that center issues of worker rights and social justice. We compiled this list to make that a bit easier
Category: Labor Studies
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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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The Chronicle of Higher Education Features KI Scholars Who Study the Working Class
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently featured our Visiting Scholar John Russo and faculty affiliate Sherry Linkon and their efforts to unravel the mysteries of the American working class. The
Categories: In the News, Labor Studies, Our Staff, People, Visiting Scholars
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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