Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i1

Published: 2023-07-03

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Editorial

Editorial

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Articles

‘Sure why would they need Irish?’: Scoil an tSeachtar Laoch, Ballymun, and working-class decolonisation, c.1970-73

Kerron Ó Luain

6-24
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Experiences of academic-activists in Ireland: comfortable and uncomfortable activism in the current institutional environment

Jordan Kirwan

25-40
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Demolition Derby, Working-Class Identity, and Capitalist Geographies

Billy Williams

41-57
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Laughing all the Way to the Closed Factory: The Deindustrialization Comedy

Mikkel Jensen

58-70
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Problems and possibilities for Swedish working-class literature in a neoliberal age

Magnus Gustafson

71-83
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‘Typical characters under typical circumstances’: The Slum Fiction of Dorothy Hewett and Ruth Park

Ronald Paul

84-96
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Dropping Voices: Southern Black Agrarian Revolt in Charles Chesnutt’s Fiction

James O'Donoghue

97-115
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Personal Essays

‘They Died from Misadventure and Accident’: Learning from our Missing Ancestral Failures

Bob Zecker

116-135
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Invisible Laborers: A storied love letter to other working-class mothers in academia

Miranda Mosier-Puentes

136-148
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Poems

The Laughing Face of Youth

Ian C Smith

149
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Book Reviews

Liu, P. (2023) The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. Duke University Press.

Matt Brim

150-152
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McCallum, Jamie K. (2022) Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. Basic Books.

Michael Zweig

153-155
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Henry, A. (2022). Seen, Heard, and Paid: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized. Rodale

Nathaniel Heggins Bryant

156-158
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Fogelson, Robert (2022) Working-Class Utopias: A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City. Princeton.

Joshua B. Freeman

159-161
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Baldwin, Davarian (2021) In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Bold Type Books.

Gabriel Winant

162-163
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