Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Why working-class studies?
	Organization of the Handbook
	References
Part I Methods and principles of research in working-class studies
	Section introduction: Methods and principles of research in working-class studies
		Notes
		References
	1 Class analysis from the inside: Scholarly personal narrative as a signature genre of working-class studies
		Claiming and complicating working-class perspectives
		Positional authority as a working-class scholarly ethos
		Building a community of practice
		Personal narrative as agency
		Personal problems
		Notes
		References
	2 Reconceiving class in contemporary working-class studies
		An ‘infinite fragmentation of interests and position’
		‘Under construction’
		‘Multiplication of the proletariat’: for Marxism in working-class studies
		Seriality, living labor, and social reproduction
		Notes
		References
	3 Mediating stories of class borders: First-generation college students, digital storytelling, and social class
		Digital storytelling, voice, and power
		Breaking silences on class
		Narratives as subversive stories
		Stories for equity and justice
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	4 The ‘how to’ of working-class studies: Selves, stories, and working across media
		Working ethnographically
		Rethinking methods: Getting personal
		Rethinking methods: What stories can contribute to theory
		Rethinking methods: Multimedia conversations
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II Class and education
	Section introduction: Class and education
		The rise and consequences of the escalator model
		Understanding how education remains a gatekeeper
		College as a collaborator
		References
	5 Class Beyond the Classroom: Supporting working-class and first-generation students, faculty, and staff
		Introduction
		Mismatch between social class cultures: Struggles of the working class in academia, and supporting success
		Programs in support of first-generation and working-class students
		Institutional context and organization of CBtC
		CBtC efforts for faculty and staff: Sharing stories and building institutional support
		CBtC efforts for students: The CBtC student group and the first-generation college student summit
		Outcomes of CBtC: For students
		Outcomes of CBtC: For faculty and staff participants
		Strategies and discussion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
	6 Working-class student experiences: Toward a social class-sensitive pedagogy for K–12 schools, teachers, and teacher ...
		Social class and racialized identity
		Popularized constructions of social class
		Working-class bodies and school
		Social class and critical pedagogy
		‘Five principles for change’
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	7 The pedagogy of class: Teaching working-class life and culture in the academy
		The evolution of working-class studies
		Introducing working-class studies
		The working-class student
		Integrating working-class studies
		Conclusion
		References
	8 Being working class in the English classroom
		Introduction
		Tracking and the invidious consequences of being in the bottom sets
		Reduced to a number: The impact of excessive testing and assessment on learner identities
		A curriculum that marginalizes working-class knowledge?
		Conclusion
		References
	9 Getting schooled: Working-class students in higher education
		Psychological demands
		Physical demands
		Academic performance
		Intervention techniques
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	10 Learning our place: Social reproduction in K–12 schooling
		Theoretical frameworks
		Segregation within and among schools
		Cultural capital
		The achievement gap
		Investment in education
		Social mobility
		Access to college
		Moving forward
		References
Part III Work and community
	Section introduction: Work and community
		References
	11 Deindustrialization and its consequences
		The sources and limits of resistance
		Cultural persistence versus erasure
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	12 Economic dislocation and trauma
		The growing danger of dislocation
		Traumas of dislocation
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		References
	13 Working-class studies, oral history and industrial illness
		Oral history, working-class studies and illness
		Work-health cultures, risk and the body
		Living with illness, disability and death
		From adversity to advocacy: Building an occupational disease movement
		Blighted lives: Deindustrialization, job loss and illness
		Concluding comments: What does oral history contribute?
		References
	14 Precarity’s affects: The trauma of deindustrialization
		Loss of futurity
		Precarity and grievability
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	15 Feeling, re-imagined in common1: Working with social haunting in the English coalfields
		Introduction
		Background
		A social haunting
		The Ghost Labs
		Why New Working-Class Studies?
		The projects
		So, what really happens in the Ghost Labs? A roof fall, Boundary Road, and a ‘dark saviour’
		An anticipatory poetics of forces and intensities
		Feeling, held in common: A utopian grace?
		Notes
		References
Part IV Working-class cultures
	Section introduction: Working-class cultures
		References
	16 There is a genuine working-class culture
		Class blindness and the one right way of middle-class life
		Notes
		References
	17 Class, culture, and inequality
		What is a class culture?
		Where do class cultures come from?
		How cultures vary by class
		Why class cultures matter
		Lingering questions about class and culture
		References
	18 Post-traumatic lives: Precarious employment and invisible injury
		When work hurts
		On-the-job training in learned helplessness
		Cognitive dissonance
		The invisible ism: Classism
		Avoidable human suffering: Repair the world
		References
	19 Activist class cultures
		Activists’ class predispositions
			Rooted and unrooted paths to activism
			Class speech codes
			Class and disempowerment
		Four classed movement traditions
		Approaches to leadership in classed movement traditions
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	20 The Australian working class in popular culture
		Historical context
		Popular culture
		Film
		Television
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part V Representations
	Section introduction: Representations of the working class
		References
	21 Writing Dubai: Indian labour migrants and taxi topographies
		Introduction
		Making labour migration visible
		The oil encounter and genre
		Urban imaginaries: Dubai Dreams and City of Life
		Dystopian Dubai
		Notes
		References
	22 The cinema of the precariat
		The first cinema of the precariat: American migrant labor
		The paradox of Chinese ‘internal’ migration
		Waste and recycling in the First and Third Worlds
		The Wal-Martization of the precariat
		The precariat in virtual space
		A precarious conclusion
		References
	23 The ‘body of labor’ in U.S. postwar documentary photography: A working-class studies perspective
		Notes
		References
	24 Mapping working-class art
		A new, incomplete map
		Ways of seeing workers
		What to look for: Intersecting and shaping elements
			Beauty
			Physicality of labor
			Picturing working lives
			The narrative impulse and historical consciousness
			Communal sensibility
			Representations of alienated labor or good work
			Intent and audience
		Visual languages and representational forms
			Paintings and workers
			Graphic arts and workers
		Mexican revolutionary printmaking
		WPA/FAP (Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project)
			Photography and workers
			The photographic collective and the individual imaginary
		Culture and no conclusion
		Art, walls, and resistance to walls
		The commons as an alternative to the wall
		Notes
		References
	25 ‘Things that are left out’: Working-class writing and the idea of literature
		Unfinished business: Working-class writers and the ‘canon wars’
		Reading differently: The idea of literature
		Changing the ‘distribution of the sensible’: Working-class writing and form
		References
	26 Lit-grit: The gritty and the grim in working-class cultural production
		Gritty space
		Commodified grit
		Evaluating gritty aesthetics
		Notes
		References
	27 Mass incarceration, prison labor, prison writing
		A brief history of penal labor
		Prison writing
		Notes
		References
	28 Marketing millennial women: Embodied class performativity on American television
		Precarious post-feminist fantasies and embodied regulation
		Networking the bawdy in America
		Cable TV dinners: As American as apple pie
		Reproducing the laboring female body
		Notes
		References
Part VI Activism and collective action
	Section introduction: Activism and collective action
		What are activism and collective action in working-class studies?
		Efforts to hinder activism and collective action
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	29 From stigma to solution: Centering the community college through activism in the classroom and the community
		Why the community college is such a critical site of potential activism for social change
		Obstacles to activism at community colleges
		Focusing on the classroom as a site of activism
		Community college faculty and public scholarship as a form of activism
		References
	30 Border crossing with day laborers and affordable housing activists
		Day labor in a global south
		Temporary staffing agencies
		Street corners
		Nonprofit hiring halls
		Marches and protest
		Affordable housing development
		Research accessibility
		Working-class studies as border crossing
		Notes
		References
	31 Finding class in food justice efforts
		Food workers and labor
		Working-class consumers
		Local food movements and food sovereignty
		Food activism/food justice at work
		Finding class in food justice efforts
		Notes
		References
	32 The mutual determination of class and race in the United States: History and current implications
		Historical origins of white supremacy and racism
		Reconstruction and its aftermath
		Post-World War II anti-communism and the Second Reconstruction
		Betrayal of the Second Reconstruction
		Organizing in the Trump era
		Notes
		References
	33 Documenting Lumbee working-class history: A service-learning approach
		Race and class in the southeast
		Taking it to the streets: Student learning redefined
		Someplace like Pembroke: From the fields to the factory
		Class reflections
		Making working-class life public
		Notes
		References
	34 Precarious workers and social mobilization in Portuguese call centre assembly lines
		Introduction
		Call centre assembly lines
		Call Centre Workers
		Social mobilization and trade unionism in call centres
		Virtual collective action in call centres
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	35 Post-Fordist affect: Unions, the labor movement, and the weight of history
		General Electric lies. Does it matter?
		Affect and action
		States and claims
		References
	Conclusion
Index