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The Working-Class Studies Association supports scholarship, teaching, and activism related to working-class life and cultures.

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Tag: working-class literature

Easton Awarded Faculty Grant

In summer 2018, immediate past-president, Terry Easton, was awarded a FUSE grant to conduct collaborative research and writing with an … More

terry easton, university of north georgia, working-class literature

CFP on Representations of Class Intersectionality

Simon Lee, this year’s Constance Coiner Dissertation Award recipient, is organizing a panel with Nick Bentley on “Representations of Class … More

ACLA, Georgetown University, nick bentley, simon lee, working-class literature

New Novel on Southern Working-Class Literature

  David Joy, winner of the 2018 WCSA Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing, is on tour promoting his latest … More

David Joy, quail ridge books, working-class literature, working-class studies

New Book on Deindustrialization

Sherry Lee Linkon, Professor of English and American Studies at Georgetown University, has published a new book, The Half-Life of … More

deindustrialization, sherry linkon, working class studies association, working-class literature, working-class studies

Paul Lauter Receives ADE March Award

At this year’s MLA conference, the ADE Executive Committee awarded Paul Lauter, Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of English, Emeritus at Trinity College (Connecticut), … More

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  • Indigenous Special Issue of the Journal of Working-Class Studies now available

Scenes from the 2017 Bloomington Conference

Kim Moody on the state of the American labor movement
Kim Moody on the state of the American labor movement
Oklahoma Poet Laureate Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
Oklahoma Poet Laureate Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
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Joe Varga, Conference Host & Organizer
Joe Varga, Conference Host & Organizer
Jackie Gabriel, winner of Constance Coiner Award for Best Dissertation
Jackie Gabriel, winner of Constance Coiner Award for Best Dissertation
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Michael Zweig on Working-Class Voters
Michael Zweig on Working-Class Voters
Labor History Tour of the Debs House
Labor History Tour of the Debs House

Scenes from the 2016 How Class Works Conference

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Scenes from the 2015 WCSA conference at Georgetown

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