Journal of Working-Class Studies

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2026)

Published: 2026-06-30

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Editorial

Editorial

4-5
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Articles

The Large Migrant Workers’ Strike at Femern: Class Coherence and Intra-worker Fragility in Collective Action

Andrea Borello, Bjarke Refslund

6-22
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The Feminist Awakening of the St. Louis Teamsters

Amanda L. Izzo

23-41
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The Poetic Claim of Labor Law: Bread and Roses as a Living Symbol of Workers’ Struggles

Aurélia Gervasoni

42-59
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“Collective Human Substance”: Power and Community in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin

Julia Obert, Scott Henkel

60-75
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“The Sky Above and the Earth Below”: The Tramping Narratives of Jack Hilton

Rebecca Shipp

76-91
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How Universal Basic Income (UBI) Can Empower the Working Class Through Improved Wage Negotiation and Poverty Alleviation

Hefin Gwilym, David Beck, Phương Anh Nghiêm

92-110
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Living in the Ruins: Melancholic Nostalgia and the Decomposition of England's Traditional Working Class

Simon Winlow

111-124
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The Historical Persistence of Working-Class Culture: How Laborers Created the Ethical Foundation of Western Civilization

Kenneth Atkinson

125-146
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The Academic Echelon: Working-Class Research, First Nations Cultural Load and Relational Ethics in the Settler-Colonial University

James Beaufils

147-161
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Personal Essays

Beyond the Knapsack: Rethinking Whiteness, Privilege, and Class in Rural America

William Matthew McCarter

162-163
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Academic Difficulties: The Enemies of Clarity

Kristian Williams

164-166
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Creative Non-Fiction

Factory Existentialism: The Machinery Of Meaning

Wayne Mason

167-168
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Working-Class Wheel of Fortune

Erin Vincent

169-175
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Book Reviews

Adjunct (2024): Contingent Academic Worker Endures Dehumanization, Desperation and Indignity in a Hilariously Impossible Quest for a Tenure Track Dream Job.

Katherine Arnoldi

176-178
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Clayton, O. and McIntyre, I., eds. (2025) The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. University of Minnesota Press.

Jennifer Forsberg

179-181
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McKelvey, P. (2024) Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. NYU Press.

Julie Assouly

182-184
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Miller, R. J. (2021). Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. Little, Brown and Company and Dettlaff, A. J. (2023). Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for

James Beaufils

185-188
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Thomas, C. (2024). Scrip: How the Coal Companies Impoverished Harlan County. County Line Books.

Nathaniel Heggins Bryant

189-191
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Roper, L. (2025) Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War. Basic Books.

Jack Metzgar

191-194
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Roediger, David. (2025) An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education. Fordham University Press.

Scott Henkel

195-198
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Streib, J. and Leondar-Wright, B. (2025) Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?: Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas. Stanford University Press

Karen Gaffney

199-201
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Kahlenberg, R.D. (2025). Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at American Colleges. Hachette Book Group.

Kenneth Oldfield

202-206
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Pauszek, J. (2025). Worker writers: Community archiving in action. National Council of Teachers of English.

D-Jay Bidwell

207-208
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