Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. What's New about New Working-Class Studies? 1
5. PART ONE. NEWWORKING-CLASS STUDIES AT THE INTERSECTIONS
6. 1. Gender, Class, and History 19
7. 2. "More Than Two Things": The State of the Art of Labor History 32
8. 3. "All I Wanted Was a Steady Job": The State and African American Workers 42
9. 4. "This Mill Won't Run No More": Oral History and Deindustrialization 54
10. PART TWO. DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
11. 5. Under Construction: Working-Class Writing 63
12. 6. Working-Class Geographies: Capital, Space, and Place 78
13. 7. Class as a Question in Economics 98
14. PART THREE. REPRESENTATIONS
15. 8. Work Poetry and Working-Class Poetry: The Zip Code of the Heart 113
16. 9. Class Memory: Autobiography and the Art of Forgetting 137
17. 10. Filming Class 152
18. 11. "Working Man's Ph.D.": The Music of Working-Class Studies 166
19. PART FOUR. POLITICS AND EDUCATION
20. 12. Politics and the American Class Vernacular 189
21. 13. New Working-Class Studies in Higher Education 209
22. 14. Building Class Identity: Lessons from Labor Education 221
23. Notes 235
24. Contributors 265
25. Index 269