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The Routledge international handbook of working-class studies / edited by Michele Fazio, Christie Launius, Tim Strangleman

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Handbook of working-class studies and Working-class studies
Published
Abingdon : Routledge, 2020.
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1 online resource
Additional Creators
Fazio, Michele, Launius, Christie, and Strangleman, Tim, 1967-
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The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1990s in the context of deindustrialization, the rise of the service economy, and economic and cultural globalization. The Handbook brings together scholars, teachers, activists, and organizers from across three continents to focus on the study of working-class peoples, cultures, and politics in all their complexity and diversity. The Handbook maps the current state of the field and presents a visionary agenda for future research by mingling the voices and perspectives of founding and emerging scholars. In addition to a framing Introduction and Conclusion written by the co-editors, the volume is divided into six sections: Methods and principles of research in working-class studies; Class and education; Work and community; Working-class cultures; Representations; and Activism and collective action. Each of the six sections opens with an overview that synthesizes research in the area and briefly summarizes each of the chapters in the section. Throughout the volume, contributors from various disciplines explore the ways in which experiences and understandings of class have shifted rapidly as a result of economic and cultural globalization, social and political changes, and global financial crises of the past two decades. Written in a clear and accessible style, the Handbook is a comprehensive interdisciplinary anthology for this young but maturing field, foregrounding transnational and intersectional perspectives on working-class people and issues and focusing on teaching and activism in addition to scholarly research. It is a valuable resource for activists, as well as working-class studies researchers and teachers across the social sciences, arts, and humanities, and it can also be used as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses.
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9781351780285 electronic book
135178028X electronic book
9781315200842 electronic book
1315200848 electronic book
9781351780278 electronic book EPUB
1351780271 electronic book EPUB
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
Michele Fazio is Professor of English and Coordinator of Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, US. Christie Launius is Associate Professor and Head of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department at Kansas State University, US. Tim Strangleman is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, SSPSSR, at theUniversity of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
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