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

Steering Committee Members

President: Kitty Krupat, Associate Director of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute, Center for Worker Education at the City University of New York
Past-President: Peter Rachleff, Professor of History, Macalester College
President-Elect: David Roediger, Professor of History and African-American Studies, University of Illinois
Secretary: Michael Zweig, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
Treasurer: Terry Easton, Marion L. Brittain Fellow, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology

At-large members:
Sarah Attfield, Writing & Social Inquiry, Univ of Technology/ Sydney, Australia
Christine W. Heilman, Humanities, College of Mount St. Joseph
Pepi Leistyna, Applied Linguistics, U-Mass/Boston
Jane Van Galen, Education, University of Washington/Bothell