Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies

The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies provides an interdisciplinary overview of the field, focusing on working-class peoples, cultures, and politics. It brings together scholars, teachers, activists, and organizers from across three continents, mapping the current state of the field and presenting a visionary agenda for future research. The Handbook is divided into six sections, exploring how experiences and understandings of class have shifted due to economic and cultural globalization, social and political changes, and global financial crises. It is a valuable resource for activists, researchers, and teachers across the social sciences, arts, and humanities, and can also be used as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses.

Format: Hardback
Length: 522 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies is a timely and comprehensive volume that provides a comprehensive 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. This 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 scholars interested in understanding the complex dynamics of class, inequality, and social change.

Weight: 1118g
Dimension: 181 x 252 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138709829