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Working Class Studies
ns 63-64 | Winter 2005
 As any good historian knows, little in this world is truly new. Certainly, this is true of the emerging field we call “New Working-Class Studies.” Its roots are deep and wide, and yet over the past decade, scholars have returned to the study of working-class life and culture with renewed interest. New Working-Class Studies builds on foundations laid in several core fields, most notably Labor Studies, Labor History, and British and American cultural studies. They have provided important models and essential concepts, but then they either moved away from a focus on working-class life and culture or never fully developed an approach that took the working class seriously. Perhaps the most important foundation for New Working-Class Studies is Labor Studies, which traces its history to the early twentieth century and programs like the Bryn Mawr summer school for working women.
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News | 09.07.2006
Michael Bérubé's latest book, What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education, has been published by W. W. Norton & Company. In it, Bérubé "offers a definitive rebuttal to conservative activists' most incendiary claims about American universities."
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News | 07.23.2006
Student loans, for more than half those attending college, are the new paradigm of college funding. Consequently, student debt is, or will soon be, the new paradigm of early to middle adult life. Gone are the days when the state university was as cheap as a laptop and was considered a right, like secondary education. Now higher education is, like most social services, a largely privatized venture, and loans are the chief way that a majority of individuals pay for it.
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MR BOOKS
Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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