Working in class : recognizing how social class shapes our academic work / edited by Allison L. Hurst and Sandi Nenga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hurst, Allison L., 1969- editor.

Nenga, Sandi Kawecka, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Low-income college students--United States.

Low-income college students.

Educational mobility--United States.

Educational mobility.

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared.The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay.All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Research; 1 Class as a Force of Habit; 2 Controlling for Class; 3 Class, Academia, and Ontologies of Global Selfhood; 4 Survival Strategies for Working-Class Women as Junior Faculty Members; Part Two: Teaching; 5 Boundary Crossing; 6 Lessons Learned; 7 Making Class Salient in the Sociology Classroom; 8 Witnessing Social Class in the Academy; 9 The Classroom Crucible; Part Three: Work in the Academy; 10 Working-Class, Teaching Class, and Working Class in the Academy; 11 "We're All Middle Class Here"; 12 Narrating the Job Crisis

13 Capitalizing ClassReferences; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-82-16-21810-4

1-4758-2254-5

OCLC:

930786605