Vol. 9 No. 2 (2024)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v9i2

Published: 2024-12-29

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Editorial

Editorial

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Articles

“Workers without Borders:” Envisioning Sociality in Xiao Hai’s Poems

Xin Yang

4-18
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Responding to the Rhythms of Labor: Lola Ridge’s Work Songs in The Ghetto and Other Poems

Michelle B. Gaffey

19-41
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“The Tale is Soon Told”: Working-Class Storytelling in Sylvia Pankhurst’s “Thrift” and May Westoby’s “The Injustice of the King”

Carrie Timlin

42-62
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Girls’ Class and Character in Contemporary YA Fiction

Lisa Paolucci

63-75
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Working-class Academics: Challenging Deficit Narratives Through Cultural Wealth

Teresa Crew

76-91
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Personal Essays

“A Deadly Deception: The Asbestos Tragedy in McLean County” – From Family History to Community Museum Exhibit

Ericka Wills

92-105
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Book Reviews

Chung, N. (2023) A Living Remedy. Harper Collins

Renny Christopher

106-108
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Waldman, A. (2024) Help Wanted. Norton

RS Deeren

109-111
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Shih E. (2023) Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue. University of California Press

Christopher R. Martin

112-114
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Kwon, H. (2024) Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families. Stanford University Press

Jeffrey Cabusao

115-117
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Osborne, M. (2024). Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility. University of Chicago Press

Lauren J. Harvey

118-120
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Reilly, I.B., editor (2022) The Lives of Working Class Academics: Getting Ideas Above Your Station. Emerald Publishing

Barbara Jensen

121-126
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High S. (2022) Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class. McGill-Queen’s University Press

Jill Schennum

127-129
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Amezcua, M. (2023). Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification. The University of Chicago Press

David Robles

130-132
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Gildea, R. (2023) Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85. Yale University Press

Jamie Owen Daniel

133-135
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