"We put the working class, in all its varieties, at the center
of our work. The new working-class studies is not only about the
labor movement, or about workers of any particular kind, or workers
in any particular place even in the workplace. Instead, we ask
questions about how class works for people at work, at home, and in
the community. We explore how class both unites and divides
working-class people, which highlights the importance of
understanding how class shapes and is shaped by race, gender,
ethnicity, and place. We reflect on the common interests as well as
the divisions between the most commonly imagined version of the
working class industrial, blue-collar workers and workers in the
'new economy' whose work and personal lives seem, at first glance,
to place them solidly in the middle class." from the
Introduction
In John Russo and Sherry LeeLinkon's book, contributors trace
the origins of the new working-class studies, explore how it is
being developed both within and across fields, and identify key
themes and issues. Historians, economists, geographers,
sociologists, and scholars of literature and cultural studies
introduce many and varied aspects of this emerging field.
Throughout, they consider how the study of working-class life
transforms traditional disciplines and stress the importance of
popular and artistic representations of working-class life.
Contributors: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois; Renny
Christopher, California State University Channel Islands; Jim
Daniels, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh; Elizabeth Faue,
Wayne State University; Lisa Jordan, University of Minnesota; Paul
Lauter, Trinity College; Sherry Lee Linkon, Youngstown State
University; Jack Metzgar, Roosevelt University in Chicago; Don
Mitchell, Syracuse University; Kimberley L. Phillips, The College
of William and Mary; Alessandro Portelli, University of Rome La
Sapienza; David Roediger, University of Illinois, Rachel Lee Rubin,
University of Massachusetts Boston; John Russo, Youngstown State
University; Tim Strangleman, London Metropolitan University; Tom
Zaniello, Northern Kentucky University and George Meany Center for
Labor Studies; Michael Zweig, State University of New York at Stony
Brook"
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