Journal of Working-Class Studies

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025)

Published: 2025-08-16

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Editorial

Editorial

3-5
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Articles

Motorization of Paddle Rickshaws in Bangladesh: A Socio-Economic Evaluation

Md. Mizanur Rahman

6-25
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From Migration to Psychological Distress: Depression, Suicidal Thoughts and Associated Factors among Bangladeshi Migrant Workers

Pavel Ahmed, Mst. Safia Akter, Rashed Ahmed Hawlader

26-43
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The “Sweetest Sounding” Words of Civil Rights: A Labor Origin Story of the “Right to Work”

Thomas A. Castillo

44-59
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The Emergence of Proletarian Cinema in the Weimar Republic

Scott Weiss

60-71
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From the Particular to the Generic: Fostering a More Socioeconomically Diverse Professoriate

Kenneth Oldfield

72-89
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Analysis/Commentary

Cross-National Comparisons of Poverty and Working-Class Earnings: How the United States Measures Up

Lawrence M. Eppard, David A. Boatwright, Thomas C. Hatvany

90-135
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Essays

Politics, Pandemics and Protest: A Case of 2020 Health Workers Strike in Hong Kong

Hong Yu Liu, Bill Taylor, Alex Tsz Yuk Chan

136-144
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In Youngstown, Ohio, Deindustrialization Erodes the Old City, but Palimpsests of Place Yield Insights for Workers, Artists, and Activists, Including Me

Alice Whittenburg

145-158
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Working-Class Politics and Identity Politics: An Engagement with Michael Zweig

Ganesh Trichur

159-172
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Creative Work

Into the sun

Ian C Smith

173-174
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Three Poems: “The Ballard of My First Communion”, “The Our Father Working-Class Riding Mower Blues”, “Duck, You Dumbass”

William J. Doan

175-189
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Wisconsin Milk Strike

Lita Kurth

190-192
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To the Woman Ordering Salad

Debbie Chase

193-196
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Book Reviews

Davis, L. (2024) Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It. Duke University Press.

Matt Brim

197-199
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Perlin, R. (2024) Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Atlantic Monthly Press

Joshua B. Freeman

200-202
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Bruno, R. (2024) What Work Is. University of Illinois Press.

Stephanie Ross

203-205
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Goldman, D. (2024) Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age. U. of Illinois Press.

Andrew Stevens

206-208
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Zhang, L., ed. (2024) Asian Workers Stories. Hardball Press.

Magnus Nilsson

209-210
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Bourgeois, L., ed. (2024) Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Farm. Vox Press.

Nathaniel Heggins Bryant

211-213
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