About the Journal
The Working-Class Studies Association aims to develop and promote multiple forms of scholarship, teaching, and activism related to working class life and cultures.
Journal ISSN: 2475-4765
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The Journal is co-edited by Sarah Attfield and Liz Giuffre (University of Technology Sydney), and operates as an independent, adjudicated, open-acess, scholarly publication alongside WCSA.
We:
- Promote awareness, growth, and legitimacy of working-class studies internationally
- Promote models of working-class studies that actively involve and serve the interests of working-class people
- Promote critical discussions of the relationships among class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and other structures of inequality
- Promote interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and disciplinary approaches to studying and teaching about the lived experience of working-class people
- Provide opportunities for academics, artists, activists, workers, independent scholars, students, and others to share their work, make connections with colleagues and professional organizations, and learn about resources
- Facilitate conversations and critical debate engaging diverse intellectual and political approaches to scholarship, teaching, and outreach in working-class studies
- Create partnerships that link scholarship with activism in labor, community, and other working-class social justice organizations
The organization also has a regularly updated and widely read blog, Working-Class Perspectives which features opinion columns on issues relevant to working-class people and cultures. For more details please visit Working-Class Perspectives
