Welcome to the web home of the Working Class Studies Association!

The Working Class Studies Association aims to develop and promote multiple forms of scholarship, teaching, and activism related to working class life and cultures.

• Promote awareness, growth, and legitimacy of working-class studies internationally
  
• Promote models of working-class studies that actively involve and serve the interests of working-class people
• Promote critical discussions of the relationships among class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and other structures of inequality
• Promote interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and disciplinary approaches to studying and teaching about the lived experience of working-class people
• Provide opportunities for academics, artists, activists, workers, independent scholars, students, and others to share their work, make connections with colleagues and professional organizations, and learn about resources
• Facilitate conversations and critical debate engaging diverse intellectual and political approaches to scholarship, teaching, and outreach in working-class studies
• Create partnerships that link scholarship with activism in labor, community, and other working-class social justice organizations

What's New

7/3: 3 new conferences have been added to the calendar: The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (7/32-8/2, Pittsburgh PA), Ethnic Studies 40 Years Later (10/7-10, San Francisco, CA) and the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference, 11/5-7, Boston, MA.

7/3: Special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History on the theme of "The Irish in America and the World." Summer 2009, Vol. 28, No. 4.

6/29: The Spring 2009 issue of Working-Class Notes has been posted in the members area.

6/27: 5 new members have been added to the member directory.