Journal of Working-Class Studies

Current Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2023)

Published: 2023-12-24

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Editorial

Editorial

3-4
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Articles

Refusing the Sentimental Italian Immigration Story in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven

Nancy Caronia

5-24
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Middletown Lives through Middle-Class Eyes: Hillbilly Elegy and the Problem with the “Liberal Media”

Sharon Zechowski

25-35
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A Study of Self-Estrangement Among Fast-Food Workers

Bethany Haworth, Daniel Auerbach, Jennifer Tabler

36-50
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What does it mean to be working class? Exploring the definition of a social class identity through the eyes of working-class professional services and administrative staff in Russell Group universities

Jess Pilgrim-Brown

51-68
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Personal Essays

Preparing Working-Class Academics for Success

Kenneth Oldfield

69-80
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The Man with a Million Names: A Personal Essay on Transit Work

Fred S. Naiden

81-98
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Analysis/Commentary

Community Inequalities and Children’s Life Chances in the United States

Lawrence M. Eppard, Kayla Dalhouse, Erik Nelson, Jenna Robbins

99-126
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Poems

Motorcycle on my mind

Ian C Smith

127
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Book Reviews

Kelley, Blair LM (2023) Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. Liveright

Venise Wagner

128-130
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Zweig, Michael (2023) Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism. PM Press

Jeff Crosby

131-133
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Geronimus, A. (2023) Weathering. The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society. Little Brown

Jamie Daniel

134-136
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Taylor, Y. (2022) Working-Class Queers. Pluto Press

Erin Heiser

137-139
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O’Sullivan, S. (2022) Reality TV’s Real Men of the Recession: White Masculinity In Crisis and the Rise of Trumpism. Lexington Books

Jennifer Forsberg

140-142
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Entin, J. (2023). Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work. University of Michigan Press

Tracy Floreani

143-145
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Cowie, Jefferson (2022) Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. Basic Books

Scott Henkel

146-148
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Erlich, Mark (2023) The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity To Construction Work. University of Illinois Press

Richard Rowe

149-151
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Schennum, Jill (2023) As Goes Bethlehem: Steelworkers and the Restructuring of an Industrial Working Class. Vanderbilt University Press

Chris Walley

152-154
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Deeren, R.S. (2023) Enough to Lose. Wayne State University Press

Jim Daniels

155-157
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