Table Of ContentRoutledge International Handbook
of Working- Class Studies
The Routledge International Handbook of Working-C lass Studies is a timely volume that provides an
overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1990s in the context of deindustrial-
ization, the rise of the service economy, and economic and cultural globalization. The Handbook
brings together scholars, teachers, activists, and organizers from across three continents to focus
on the study of working-c lass peoples, cultures, and politics in all their complexity and diversity.
The Handbook maps the current state of the field and presents a visionary agenda for future
research by mingling the voices and perspectives of founding and emerging scholars. In add-
ition to a framing Introduction and Conclusion written by the co- editors, the volume is divided
into six sections: Methods and principles of research in working-c lass studies; Class and educa-
tion; Work and community; Working- class cultures; Representations; and Activism and collective
action. Each of the six sections opens with an overview that synthesizes research in the area and
briefly summarizes each of the chapters in the section. Throughout the volume, contributors
from various disciplines explore the ways in which experiences and understandings of class have
shifted rapidly as a result of economic and cultural globalization, social and political changes, and
global financial crises of the past two decades.
Written in a clear and accessible style, the Handbook is a comprehensive interdisciplinary
anthology for this young but maturing field, foregrounding transnational and intersectional
perspectives on working- class people and issues and focusing on teaching and activism in add-
ition to scholarly research. It is a valuable resource for activists as well as working- class studies
researchers and teachers across the social sciences, arts, and humanities, and it can also be used as
a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses.
Michele Fazio is Professor of English and Coordinator of Gender Studies at the University of
North Carolina at Pembroke, US.
Christie Launius is Associate Professor and Head of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Department at Kansas State University, US.
Tim Strangleman is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and
Social Research, SSPSSR, at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
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Contents
List of images x
List of contributors xi
Acknowledgments xxii
Introduction 1
Michele Fazio, Christie Launius, and Tim Strangleman
PART I
Methods and principles of research in working- class studies 9
Section introduction: Methods and principles of research in
working- class studies 11
Christie Launius
1 Class analysis from the inside: Scholarly personal narrative as a signature
genre of working- class studies 20
Sherry Lee Linkon
2 Reconceiving class in contemporary working-c lass studies 32
Joseph Entin
3 Mediating stories of class borders: First- generation college students,
digital storytelling, and social class 45
Jane A. Van Galen
4 The ‘how to’ of working- class studies: Selves, stories, and working
across media 59
Christine J. Walley
v
Contents
PART II
Class and education 77
Section introduction: Class and education 79
Allison L. Hurst
5 Class Beyond the Classroom: Supporting working- class and first-
generation students, faculty, and staff 91
Colby R. King and Sean H. McPherson
6 Working- class student experiences: Toward a social class- sensitive
pedagogy for K–12 schools, teachers, and teacher educators 107
Colleen H. Clements and Mark D. Vagle
7 The pedagogy of class: Teaching working- class life and culture in the
academy 118
Lisa A. Kirby
8 Being working class in the English classroom 130
Diane Reay
9 Getting schooled: Working- class students in higher education 141
Bettina Spencer
10 Learning our place: Social reproduction in K–12 schooling 151
Deborah M. Warnock
PART III
Work and community 161
Section introduction: Work and community 163
Tim Strangleman
11 Deindustrialization and its consequences 169
Steven High
12 Economic dislocation and trauma 180
Patrick Korte and Victor Tan Chen
13 Working- class studies, oral history and industrial illness 190
Arthur McIvor
14 Precarity’s affects: The trauma of deindustrialization 201
Kathryn Marie Dudley
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Contents
15 Feeling, re- imagined in common: Working with social haunting in the
English coalfields 213
Geoff Bright
PART IV
Working- class cultures 225
Section introduction: Working-c lass cultures 227
Tim Strangleman
16 There is a genuine working-c lass culture 231
Jack Metzgar
17 Class, culture, and inequality 242
Jessi Streib
18 Post- traumatic lives: Precarious employment and invisible injury 252
Barbara Jensen
19 Activist class cultures 262
Betsy Leondar- Wright
20 The Australian working class in popular culture 274
Sarah Attfield
PART V
Representations 285
Section introduction: Representations of the working class 287
Michelle M. Tokarczyk
21 Writing Dubai: Indian labour migrants and taxi topographies 295
Christiane Schlote
22 The cinema of the precariat 313
Tom Zaniello
23 The ‘body of labor’ in U.S. postwar documentary photography:
A working- class studies perspective 325
Carol Quirke
24 Mapping working- class art 343
Janet Zandy
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Contents
25 ‘Things that are left out’: Working-c lass writing and the idea of literature 359
Ben Clarke
26 Lit- grit: The gritty and the grim in working- class cultural production 371
Simon Lee
27 Mass incarceration, prison labor, prison writing 381
Nathaniel Heggins Bryant
28 Marketing millennial women: Embodied class performativity on
American television 392
Jennifer H. Forsberg
PART VI
Activism and collective action 403
Section introduction: Activism and collective action 405
Scott Henkel
29 From stigma to solution: Centering the community college through
activism in the classroom and the community 413
Karen Gaffney
30 Border crossing with day laborers and affordable housing activists 425
Terry Easton
31 Finding class in food justice efforts 442
Leslie Hossfeld, E. Brooke Kelly, and Julia F. Waity
32 The mutual determination of class and race in the United States:
History and current implications 455
Michael Zweig
33 Documenting Lumbee working- class history: A service- learning
approach 468
Michele Fazio
34 Precarious workers and social mobilization in Portuguese call centre
assembly lines 480
Isabel Roque
viii
Contents
35 Post- Fordist affect: Unions, the labor movement, and the weight
of history 492
Joseph Varga
Conclusion 505
Michele Fazio, Christie Launius, and Tim Strangleman
Index 509
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