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: Fred Gardaphe, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College
Past-President: Michelle Tokarczyk, English, Goucher College
President-Elect: Nick Coles, University of Pittsburgh
Secretary: Michael Zweig, Economics and Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
Treasurer: Cherie Rankin, Heartland Community College
At-large members: