What We Hold in Common

Restored to print--in an expanded edition--the pivotal text in working-class studies.

Janet Zandy is professor of language and literature at Rochester Institute of Technology

Acknowledgments

viii

Preface to the New Edition

ix

Introduction

xiii

Working-Class Voices

School Clothes

3

(4)

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Go See Jack London

7

(3)

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Stories from a Working-Class Childhood

10

(2)

Lisa Orr

``Proud to Work for the University''

12

(5)

Kristin Kovacic

Ruth in August

17

(7)

Barbara Horn

Death Mask

24

(2)

Joann Quinones

For Giacomo

26

(1)

Edvige Giunta

El olor de cansansio (The Smell of Fatigue)

27

(3)

Melida Rodas

The Pawnbroker's Window

30

(2)

Pat Wynne

Praise the Waitresses

32

(2)

Pat Wynne

Faces in the Hands

34

(13)

Carolyn Chute

Recovering Working-Class Autobiography and Oral History

`We Did Change Some Attitudes': Maida Springer-Kemp and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

47

(24)

Brigid O'Farrell

Joyce L. Kornbluh

Autobiography and Reconstructing Subjectivity at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921--1938

71

(25)

Karyn L. Hollis

Working Class Consciousness in Jo Sinclair's The Seasons

96

(5)

Florence Howe

The Writing on the Wall, Or Where Did That Dead Head Come From?

101

(11)

Cy-Thea Sand

Autobiographies by American Working-Class Women: A Bibliography

112

(11)

Cheryl Cline

Practicing Working-Class Studies

Reclaiming Our Working-Class Identities: Teaching Working-Class Studies in a Blue-Collar Community (with syllabi)

123

(9)

Linda Strom

A Wealth of Possibilities: Workers, Texts, and the English Department

132

(10)

Laura Hapke

A Community of Workers (photos and text)

142

(6)

Marilyn Anderson

`Women Have Always Sewed': The Production of Clothing and the Work of Women

148

(6)

Janet Zandy

The Fire Poems

154

(11)

Introduction

Janet Zandy

Sisters in the Flames

Carol Tarlen

rituals of spring (for the 78th anniversary of the shirtwaist factory fire)

Safiya Henderson-Holmes

Working-Class Texts and Theory

Readerly/Writerly Relations and Social Change: The Maimie Papers as Literature

165

(17)

Carole Anne Taylor

Between Theories and Anti-Theories: Moving Toward Marginal Women's Subjectivities

182

(17)

Roxanne Rimstead

`People Who Might Have Been You': Agency and the Damaged Self in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio

199

(8)

Lisa Orr

Industrial Music: Contemporary American Working-Class Poetry and Modernism

207

(16)

Julia Stein

U.S. Working-Class Women's Fiction: Notes Toward an Overview

223

(18)

Constance Coiner

New Initiatives, Syllabi, and Resources

Traveling Working Class

241

(12)

Janet Zandy

Building a Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University

253

(5)

Sherry Lee Linkon

John Russo

The Rochester Education Alliance of Labor Work-Based Curriculum Project

258

(7)

Douglas D. Noble

Honor Thy Students: The Power of Writing

265

(4)

Edvige Giunta

Mining Class: A Bibliographic Essay

269

(6)

Laura Hapke

Working, Buying, and Becoming: Race, Labor, and the High Life, from the Plantation to the Internet (syllabus)

275

(8)

Todd Vogel

Working-Class Studies and the Question of Proletarian Literature in the United States: A Graduate Seminar in American Literature (syllabus)

283

(2)

Will Watson

Women and Work in U.S. History (syllabus)

285

(5)

Peter Rachleff

Poor in America (syllabus)

290

(4)

Chuck Barone

American Capitalism (syllabus)

294

(4)

Chuck Barone

Who Does the Work? A One-Day Introduction to American Working-Class Literature (syllabus)

298

(3)

Julia Stein

Working-Class Literature and Film (syllabus with student writing)

301

(10)

Larry Smith

Carolyn J. Garcia

Julia Morton

Gina Parmer

Mary E. Pentridge

Labor Documentaries: A Filmography

311

(4)

Tom Zaniello

American Working-Class Literature: A Selected Bibliography

315

(12)

Nicholas Coles

Biographical Notes

327

(28)

Publication Acknowledgments

355

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What We Hold in Common

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