“Everything Being Tangled Up in Every Other Thing”: Class, Desire, and Shame in Michelle Tea'sThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

Hypatia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-484
Author(s):  
Emma McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Private Individual

This article explores the relationship of shame to class and to desire in Michelle Tea's memoirThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America. Through applying a class analytic to the framework of shame recently advanced by feminist, queer, postcolonial, and affect theorists, I foreground shame as central to the experience of being poor and queer, and examine shame as not only negative and positive, but as productive. I operationalize an “oppositional reading strategy” to insist on attention to the materiality of embodied desire and labor, in particular queer desire and sex work, that is made available in poor and working‐class women's life‐writing. Tea's memoir demonstrates how writing about an ambivalent relation to shame is an act of resistance, an opportunity to transform private, individual experiences into public, and therefore collective, articulations.

scholarly journals City’s periphery, between urban segregation and extensive agriculture. Case Ituzaingó anexo, Córdoba, Argentina

2018 ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Fernando Vanoli
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Industrial Expansion ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Extensive Agriculture ◽  
Productive Model

El barrio Ituzaingó Anexo está ubicado en la periferia sureste de la ciudad de Córdoba. Hace dieciséis años, la lucha de un grupo de madres visibilizó el conflicto ambiental que aún viven. Tal hecho, se hizo evidente al identificar enfermedades y muertes causadas por los efectos ambientales de los agrotóxicos en la producción de soja transgénica. En este trabajo, nos preguntamos de qué manera quienes deciden sobre la ciudad también son responsables de los daños ambientales producidos en este sector de la sociedad, a partir de comprender la relación del barrio con la configuración de la ciudad. Para esto, analizamos el surgimiento de Ituzaingó Anexo como barrio obrero en la expansión industrial de la ciudad y posteriormente el inicio del modelo productivo de agricultura extensiva. Haciendo énfasis en la incompatibilidad de usos habilitados por la zonificación en la planificación de la ciudad, y los efectos de segregación urbana y ambiental. The Ituzaingó Anexo neighborhood is located on the Córdoba’s city southeast periphery. Sixteen years ago, the struggle of a mother’s group made visible the environmental conflict that they still live through. This fact became evident when they identified diseases and deaths caused by the environmental effects of agrotoxics in the production of transgenic soybeans. In this work, we wonder how those who decide about the city are also responsible for the environmental damage produced in this sector of society, understanding the relationship of the neighborhood with the configuration of the city. In this way, we analyze the creation of Ituzaingó Anexo as a working class neighborhood in the industrial expansion of the city and later the beginning of the productive model of expansive agriculture. Emphasizing the incompa tibility of uses enabled by zoning in the planning of the city, and the effects of urban and environmental segregation.

Inequality in the Working Class: The Unanticipated Consequences of Union Organization and Strikes

ILR Review ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth A. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Union Density ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
Time Series Regression ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Earned Income ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores one possible explanation for the uniquely apolitical character of the U.S. labor movement compared to the labor movements of other Western capitalist democracies. Employing a neo-Marxist class perspective, the author examines the relationship of union density (union members as a percentage of the nonagricultural work force) and of strike frequency to the distribution of earned income in the United States from 1949 to 1976. Time-series regression analysis of the quintile distribution of earned income and the Gini index of the inequality of earned income shows that union density has had mixed effects on inequality, with higher union density tending to redistribute income from middle-income workers to both the least prosperous and most prosperous workers, whereas higher strike frequency has tended to reduce income inequality generally. The author suggests that union organization may be a source of divisiveness within the working class in the postwar era.

Race, Class, and Labor: White Skin Privilege and Oppression

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Harris
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
White Skin ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article examines the relationship of race and class using the lens of working-class experiences inside the US steel and auto industries. It focuses on the applicability of white skin privilege to the conditions of labor, and introduces the concept of comparative forms of oppression. Additionally, it considerations white skin privilege from the perspective of human rights, and ends with detailed statistical information and consideration of race and gender in relationship to various job categories.

Ethnic vs Class Voting: The Case of Winnipeg, 1945

1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Wiseman ◽  
K.W. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Class Voting ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Prairie Provinces

This paper examines the relationship of social class, ethnicity, and voting in the city of Winnipeg in the 1945 provincial election. Our data sources were the 1946 census and provincial election returns. The Winnipeg provincial constituency was selected for a number of reasons. In 1945, it corresponded to the city of Winnipeg boundaries, thus permitting the correlation of the 1946 Census of the Prairie Provinces data with the October 1945 voting results. Second, it had both a large number of non-British voters and candidates, which allowed a test for the importance of ethnic voting. Third, Winnipeg had (and has) a large working-class population and pockets of upper-class areas, permitting a test for the importance of class voting. Finally, as a multi-member constituency returning 10 members, a system of proportional representation was employed. With 20 candidates in the running for 10 seats, 15 ballot transfers were necessary before all 10 candidates were declared elected. An examination of these ballot transfers permits a corroborating test for class and ethnic voting.

The (Im)possibility of Class Identity: Reflections on a Case of Failed Right-Wing Hegemony

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052095942
Author(s):  
Giorgos Bithymitris
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the dialectics of class identifications in the case of a shipbuilding community of workers in Greece. Unlike other working-class segments that went through the traumas of the recent economic crisis silently, the workers of Perama Zone attracted the attention of the public discourse on more than one occasion. The violent far-right activism that encroached on the formerly thriving industrial communities of the wider area have reopened an old discussion about the relationship of the working class with fascism. Analysing interview and ethnographic material, the article focuses on the discursive processes of class identity formation. Class as an (im)possible identity is examined through the lenses of sociological and psychodynamic distinctions between identity and identification drawing on the broader literature of cultural class analysis. The overarching aim of the study is to explore the opportunities and limitations of the far-right appeal when class is at work through affirmation and/or negation.

Social-Class Differences on the Mc Carthy Scales for Black and White Children

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Kaufman ◽  
Nadeen L. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
White Children ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of social class to the cognitive and motor Indexes yielded by the McCarthy scales was explored for representative groups of black ( n = 154) and white ( n = 862) children aged 2½ to 8½ yr. For both racial groups, children categorized as middle class scored significantly higher than working-class youngsters on each of the six indexes. The pattern of mean Indexes for different occupational groups resembled the pattern of mean IQs found in previous studies.

Engels Memorial Lecture: Women’s oppression, the origin of the family and the condition of the working class

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-199
Author(s):  
Mary Davis
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women's Oppression ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article, based on the author’s Engels Memorial Lecture on 26 November 2020, examines the significance of Friedrich Engels’s seminal work on the origin of the family, the oppression of women and the relationship of both to the development of private property. While accepting his overall analysis and rejecting alternatives, the article questions the application of Engels’s theory to an understanding of the working-class family. It suggests a way in which this lacuna can be remedied from a Marxist perspective.

scholarly journals Pride or Shame?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Montefusco
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Working Class Literature ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article proposes a reading of the novels of Alberto Prunetti, in the light of his critical reflection on working class literature. The author studies the relationship of Prunetti’s reflection with the debate on ‘literature and industry’ held in the ‘Menabò’ in the 1960s, in order to appreciate innovations and limits of this new perspective. A comparison is then proposed with contemporary French working class literature, in particular with the novels of Edouard Louis. On the basis of the different treatment of the two competitive concepts of Pride and Shame used by the writers, the author concludes that Prunetti’s writing is characterized by a heroic attitude, while Louis’ one, influenced by Ernaux and Eribon, is more pessimistic and intersectional.

‘travels of memory, imagination and fact’: Kate O'Brien's Archival Notes

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Jamison
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
Late Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Autobiographical Impulse

This essay explores Kate O'Brien's attitude towards autobiographical narrative and her quest for self-articulation. It argues that the repeated abstinence from the writing of her autobiography becomes a dominant trope in much of her late-life writing, much of which currently remains unpublished and/or uncollected. By analysing O'Brien's archival material alongside her published non-fiction prose, significant insights into O'Brien's thinking on the processes of memory, as well as her somewhat pained and contradictory relationship with the self and its expression, are brought to light. O'Brien's Farewell Spain (1937), Teresa of Avila (1951), My Ireland (1962), and Presentation Parlour (1963) all establish a mode of self-articulation through the relationship of the self with place (Spain), and person (her female relations and forebears). As such, this essay argues that these texts form a series of carefully averted auto/biographies and further utilises archive theory to offer a framework through which O'Brien's autobiographical impulse can be understood. Within this theoretical paradigm, O'Brien's quest for self-articulation finally becomes a desire to capture the anticipation of memory, opposed to direct recollection, and to seek out literary forms within which to express those memories.

Writing and Rewriting Labor’s Narrative

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Lichtenstein
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
The Law ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter presents the author'a account of how he reframed his understanding of the structures and social impulses that create the consciousness of the working-class as well its antagonists. At Berkeley in the early 1970s he was convinced that neither the law, religion, ethnicity, nor even race were as important as the work experience itself in shaping the consciousness of industrial unionists, whose sit-down strikes and wildcat strikes seemed to emerge directly out of a revolt against hierarchy and authority on the shop floor itself. However, he has come to the conclusion that the relationship of an individual to his or her work life is of less immediate importance than that person's capacity to identify with and then expound a set of ideas and aspirations that may or may not run parallel to what an outside observer might seem to think met the person's objective interests.

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