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.
Association Goals:
- 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
