This is a book about working-class identity, consciousness, and
self-determination. It offers an alternative to middle-class
assimiliation and working-class amnesia. The twenty-five
contributors use memory--both personal and collective--to show the
relationship between the uncertain economic rhythms of
working-class life and the possibilities for cultural and political
agency. Manual labor and intellectual work are connected in these
multicultural autobiographies of writers, educators, artists,
political activists, musicians, and photographers and in the
cultural work--the poems, stories, photographs, lectures,
music--they produce. Illustrated with family snapshots, this
collection--the first of its kind--includes the work of a female
machinist who is also a poet, a secretary who is also a writer, a
poet who worked on the assembly line, a musician who was also a
red-diaper baby, and an academic who is recovering the
working-class writing of her father. The consciousness that is
revealed in this book makes evident the value of class identity to
collective, democratic struggle. The contributors are Maggie
Anderson, Steve Cagan, Jim Daniels, Lennard Davis, Masani Alexis de
Veaux, Sue Doro, Julie Olsen Edwards, Carol Faulkner, Barbara Fox,
Laura Hapke, Florence Howe, David Joseph, Linda McCarriston, Wilma
Elizabeth McDaniel, Gregory Mantsios, M. Bella Mirabella, Joseph
Nassar, Tillie Olsen, Maxine Scates, Saul Slapikoff, Clarissa T.
Sligh, Carol Tarlen, Joann Maria Vasoncellos, Pat Wynne, and Janet
Zandy.
General
| Imprint: |
Rutgers University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 1994 |
| First published: |
December 1994 |
| Authors: |
Janet Zandy
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
366 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8135-2122-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8135-2122-X |
| Barcode: |
9780813521220 |
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