Routledge international handbook of working-class studies / edited by Michele Fazio, Christie Launius and Tim Strangleman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fazio, Michele, editor.

Launius, Christie, editor.

Strangleman, Tim, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1990s in the context of deindustrialization, 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-class 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 addition 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-class studies; Class and education; 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 addition 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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Images

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

Note

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

8 Being working class in the English classroom

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?

9 Getting schooled: Working-class students in higher education

Psychological demands

Physical demands

Academic performance

Intervention techniques

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

Part III Work and community

Section introduction: Work and community

11 Deindustrialization and its consequences

The sources and limits of resistance

Cultural persistence versus erasure

12 Economic dislocation and trauma

The growing danger of dislocation

Traumas of dislocation

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?

14 Precarity's affects: The trauma of deindustrialization

Loss of futurity

Precarity and grievability

15 Feeling, re-imagined in common1: Working with social haunting in the English coalfields

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?

Part IV Working-class cultures

Section introduction: Working-class cultures

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

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

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

20 The Australian working class in popular culture

Historical context

Popular culture

Film

Television

Part V Representations

Section introduction: Representations of the working class

21 Writing Dubai: Indian labour migrants and taxi topographies

Making labour migration visible

The oil encounter and genre

Urban imaginaries: Dubai Dreams and City of Life

Dystopian Dubai

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

23 The 'body of labor' in U.S. postwar documentary photography: A working-class studies perspective

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

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

26 Lit-grit: The gritty and the grim in working-class cultural production

Gritty space

Commodified grit

Evaluating gritty aesthetics

27 Mass incarceration, prison labor, prison writing

A brief history of penal labor

Prison writing

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

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

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-20084-8

1-351-78027-1

1-351-78028-X

9781315200842

OCLC:

1225975707