{"title":"Erlich, Mark (2023) The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity To Construction Work. University of Illinois Press","authors":"Richard Rowe","doi":"10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":258091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Working-Class Studies","volume":"1992 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139160421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kelley, Blair LM (2023) Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. Liveright","authors":"Venise Wagner","doi":"10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":258091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Working-Class Studies","volume":"391 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139160844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zweig, Michael (2023) Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism. PM Press","authors":"Jeff Crosby","doi":"10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":258091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Working-Class Studies","volume":"2018 35","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139159922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geronimus, A. (2023) Weathering. The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society. Little Brown","authors":"Jamie Daniel","doi":"10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":258091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Working-Class Studies","volume":"388 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139160873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines how Denise Giardina’s award-winning novel Storming Heaven offers a counterpoint to views of early twentieth-century Italian immigration to the US that rely on assimilationist conclusions. The story of Sicilian immigrant Rosa Angelelli is embedded within the fictional retelling of West Virginia labor history known as the Mine Wars. Giardina creates a female immigrant protagonist who makes plain the abuse and trauma Italian immigrant women and girls face. This point-of-view is normally obfuscated in favor of a male immigrant’s perspective, but Rosa’s story is neither ignored nor erased. As one of four protagonists in the novel, Rosa’s fractured remembrances are told through a halting discourse, revealing her isolation and the danger that awaits her no matter the choices she makes. Taking from Loretta Baldassar and Donna Gabaccia’s ideas on personal intimacy, Rosa’s struggles are not an exception, but an object lesson in how immigrant women and girls are often left with no means to develop community or intimacy, endangering their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
{"title":"Refusing the Sentimental Italian Immigration Story in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven","authors":"Nancy Caronia","doi":"10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8395","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how Denise Giardina’s award-winning novel Storming Heaven offers a counterpoint to views of early twentieth-century Italian immigration to the US that rely on assimilationist conclusions. The story of Sicilian immigrant Rosa Angelelli is embedded within the fictional retelling of West Virginia labor history known as the Mine Wars. Giardina creates a female immigrant protagonist who makes plain the abuse and trauma Italian immigrant women and girls face. This point-of-view is normally obfuscated in favor of a male immigrant’s perspective, but Rosa’s story is neither ignored nor erased. As one of four protagonists in the novel, Rosa’s fractured remembrances are told through a halting discourse, revealing her isolation and the danger that awaits her no matter the choices she makes. Taking from Loretta Baldassar and Donna Gabaccia’s ideas on personal intimacy, Rosa’s struggles are not an exception, but an object lesson in how immigrant women and girls are often left with no means to develop community or intimacy, endangering their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.","PeriodicalId":258091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Working-Class Studies","volume":"2012 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139160285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study examines self-estrangement, a dimension of alienation, and its attributes among fast-food service workers, while considering participant sociodemographic characteristics. A self-administered online survey, using Amazon MTURK, deployed over two time periods (N=1,513), provides data regarding our novel 12-item self-estrangement scale by fast-food occupation type (cashier, server, cook, shift manager, and general manager) and sociodemographic covariates. Preliminary analysis shows that a salaried position and those with a postbaccalaureate education experience lower levels of self-estrangement than their colleagues. Cashiers and cooks experience higher levels of self-estrangement relative to those in other positions. This study offers unique contributions to the conceptualization and operationalization of a dimension of alienation specific to self-estrangement, facilitating greater understanding of the fast-food labor sector, its organization, and the state of its workers
{"title":"A Study of Self-Estrangement Among Fast-Food Workers","authors":"Bethany Haworth, Daniel Auerbach, Jennifer Tabler","doi":"10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8399","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines self-estrangement, a dimension of alienation, and its attributes among fast-food service workers, while considering participant sociodemographic characteristics. A self-administered online survey, using Amazon MTURK, deployed over two time periods (N=1,513), provides data regarding our novel 12-item self-estrangement scale by fast-food occupation type (cashier, server, cook, shift manager, and general manager) and sociodemographic covariates. Preliminary analysis shows that a salaried position and those with a postbaccalaureate education experience lower levels of self-estrangement than their colleagues. Cashiers and cooks experience higher levels of self-estrangement relative to those in other positions. This study offers unique contributions to the conceptualization and operationalization of a dimension of alienation specific to self-estrangement, facilitating greater understanding of the fast-food labor sector, its organization, and the state of its workers","PeriodicalId":258091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Working-Class Studies","volume":"1989 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139160502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reality TV’s Real Men of the Recession: White Masculinity in Crisis and the Rise of Trumpism explores the popularity and persistent appeal of blue-collar frontier shows such as Ax Men , Deadliest Catch , and Ice Truckers alongside Trump’s presidency and media presence. The book’s author, independent media studies scholar Shannon O’Sullivan, interrogates reality television from networks such as Discovery and History to identify a cultural trend within American media that presents white, working-class masculinity as a hegemonic model with foundations in frontier violence, white supremacism, and settler colonialism. The book shows how American media conflates gender, class, and race to present audiences with monolithic symbols of power: a troubling circulation of blue-collar, frontier-laden white masculinity. O’Sullivan tactically mixes methodologies, drawing on literary criticism, sociology, media studies, and cultural studies to parse out the complicated genealogy and representational politics of the blue-collar frontier phenomenon. The study triangulates this phenomenon using three provocative areas of focus: hegemonic masculinity, the historical and ideological conceptions of the frontier, and performativity. Reality TV’s Real Men of the Recession dedicates the most time to defining hegemonic masculinity. As a status-quo gender performative, several chapters address how hegemonic masculinity informs media presentations of white, working men who thrive on danger, violence, and homo-social competition. While attention to this topic often feels more like a literature review than an intervention, the author does work to make the discussion more contemporary by applying an intersectional lens that calls upon both black feminist critics and indigenous critical theorists for perspective. Doing so helps to identify not only what constitutes the real men offered in the title, but provides how hegemonic masculinity becomes the social currency that maintains positions of power in 21st century America. O’Sullivan reveals how the physical and cultural geography of blue-collar
真人秀《经济衰退中的真正男子汉》：危机中的白人男性气质和特朗普主义的崛起》探讨了《斧头男》、《最致命的捕捞》和《冰上卡车司机》等蓝领前沿节目在特朗普担任总统和媒体出现的背景下的受欢迎程度和持续吸引力。本书作者是独立媒体研究学者香农-奥沙利文（Shannon O'Sullivan），她通过对 Discovery 和 History 等电视网的真人秀节目进行分析，发现了美国媒体中的一种文化趋势，即白人、工人阶级的男子气概是一种霸权模式，其基础是边疆暴力、白人至上主义和殖民者殖民主义。该书展示了美国媒体如何将性别、阶级和种族混为一谈，向受众展示单一的权力象征：蓝领阶层、充满边疆气息的白人男子气概的令人不安的流传。奥沙利文运用文学批评、社会学、媒体研究和文化研究等方法，对蓝领边疆现象的复杂谱系和表现政治进行了分析。该研究通过三个具有启发性的重点领域对这一现象进行了三角剖析：霸权的男性气质、边疆的历史和意识形态概念以及表演性。真人秀节目《经济衰退中的真正男子汉》用了最多的时间来定义霸权男性气质。作为一种维持现状的性别表演形式，有几章论述了霸权男性气质如何影响媒体对白人、职业男性的描述，他们在危险、暴力和同性社会竞争中茁壮成长。虽然对这一主题的关注常常让人感觉更像是文献综述而非干预，但作者确实通过运用交叉视角，从黑人女权主义批评家和本土批判理论家的视角出发，努力使讨论更具时代性。这样做不仅有助于确定标题中提出的真正男人的构成要素，而且还提供了霸权男性气质如何成为维持 21 世纪美国权力地位的社会货币。奥沙利文揭示了蓝领工人的自然和文化地理环境是如何影响他们的生活的。
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I was one of Ryan and Sackrey’s Strangers in Paradise, an academic raised in a working-class family. After becoming a professor, I slowly grew to understand that being a successful faculty member requires learning a different set of survival techniques than those I needed to succeed in my undergraduate and graduate studies. As it was during my student years, nobody in my family or anyone they knew could counsel me on what it takes to earn tenure, promotion, sabbatical leave, or any of the other rewards the academy offers. Compounding this problem was a counterproductive belief, one frequently held by others from backgrounds like mine. Namely, the fear that asking for help shows weakness, prima facia evidence that I was unqualified to be an academic. Beyond the questions I was afraid to ask were the many questions I did not know to ask, questions with answers that would have saved me from countless headaches. In hopes of smoothing the way for recently hired working-class academics, this article presents seven lessons I wish I had learned before becoming a university professor, knowledge that had I acquired early on would have made my travels through the university labyrinth far easier – infinitely less trying.
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This article examines the struggle carried out by working-class Irish-language activists in Ballymun to found a gaelscoil (Irish-medium school) in the early 1970s. The article is based on archival research and interviews with two key participants involved in the campaign for Scoil an tSeachtar Laoch, Éilís Uí Langáin and Colm Ó Torna. The campaign to establish the school is viewed through the lenses of class and decolonisation. Firstly, the long-term socio-economic and political contexts to the campaign are outlined. Secondly, the social base and the pre-existing networks and ideology which allowed the campaign to develop are explored. Following this, the emergence of the campaign and its politics are examined. Finally, the lasting impact of the struggle for the school both locally and nationally is discussed. The conclusion reached is one that is of the utmost importance for Irish language, gaelscoil and decolonial activists, namely that it will be difficult to replicate the success of Ballymun again today in the neoliberal context because the material basis in terms of secure housing and a tight-knit urban community does not exist. At a time when there has been much talk in Irish revivalist circles about promoting Irish in Dublin with the launch of the Baile Átha Cliath le Gaeilge (Dublin For Irish) scheme, the history of Ballymun and Scoil an tSeachtar Laoch demonstrates how a secure home is the lynchpin on which real communal progress with regard the Irish language must be based. It is therefore necessary for those who wish to see the Irish language flourish in the city to learn the lessons of history and improve, first and foremost, the day-to-day lives of ordinary Dubliners by becoming active on the burning question of housing.
本文考察了20世纪70年代初，工人阶级的爱尔兰语积极分子在巴利门(Ballymun)为建立一所爱尔兰语学校(gaelscoil)而进行的斗争。本文基于档案研究和对参与Scoil and tSeachtar Laoch运动的两位主要参与者Éilís Uí Langáin和Colm Ó Torna的采访。人们从阶级和去殖民化的角度来看待建立这所学校的运动。首先，概述了该运动的长期社会经济和政治背景。其次，探讨了运动发展的社会基础和已有的网络和意识形态。在此之后，对该运动的出现及其政治进行了研究。最后，讨论了这场斗争对学校在地方和全国的持久影响。得出的结论对爱尔兰语、盖尔斯科尔语和非殖民化活动家来说是最重要的，即在今天的新自由主义背景下，很难再复制巴利门的成功，因为不存在安全住房和紧密联系的城市社区等物质基础。在爱尔兰复兴运动的圈子里，有很多关于在都柏林推广爱尔兰语的讨论，他们发起了Baile Átha Cliath le Gaeilge(都柏林为爱尔兰人)计划，巴利门、斯科尔和塔克塔·拉瓦赫的历史表明，一个安全的家庭是如何成为爱尔兰语真正的公共进步的基础。因此，对于那些希望看到爱尔兰语在这个城市蓬勃发展的人来说，有必要从历史中吸取教训，首先，通过积极解决住房问题，改善普通都柏林人的日常生活。
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