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Article: What We Hold in Common: an Introduction to Working-Class Studies.
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- Radical Teacher
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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Edited by Janet Zandy (Feminist Press, 2001).
At the same time that schools find themselves chastised for turning out students underprepared for the contemporary workplace, educational institutions come under fire as readily for engaging learners in critical dialogue about the realities of working life. A recent example comes to mind: the outcry surrounding the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's selection of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001) as the summer reading selection for their entering undergraduates. This best-selling collection of pieces, originally published in Harper's, ...
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Article: Pitt to host gathering on working-class studies
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;
May 26, 2009 ;
307 words
...The University of Pittsburgh will host a conference on working- class studies. The 2009 Working Class Studies Association conference, titled "Class Matters," will be held June 3-6 in the university's ...
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