Philip Gillett. The British Working Class in Postwar Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. ix, 230. $29.95. ISBN 0-7190-6258-6.

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-767
Author(s):  
John Fawell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Working Class

Organizing Working-Class Academics: A Collective History

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-178
Author(s):  
Allison Hurst ◽  
Tery Griffin ◽  
Alfred Vitale
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
New York ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
The Us ◽  
Working Class Studies ◽  
Key Questions

In 2008, the Association of Working-Class Academics was founded in upstate New York by three former members of the Working-Class/Poverty-Class Academics Listserv. The Association had three goals: advocate for WCAs, build organizations on campuses that would support both working-class college students and WCAs, and support scholarship on issues relevant to class and higher education. The Association grew from a small handful to more than 200 members located in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Germany. In 2015, it was formally merged with the Working-Class Studies Association, and continues there as a special section for WCSA members. This is our collective account of the organization, told through responses to four key questions. We hope this history will provide insight and lessons for anyone interested in building similar organizations.

Trade union strategy in fashion retail in Italy and the USA: Converging divergence between institutions and mobilization?

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Gasparri ◽  
Peter Ikeler ◽  
Giovanna Fullin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Contract Workers ◽  
Action Project ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Fashion Retail ◽  
Retail Workers ◽  
Effective Representation

We investigate trade union strategies in fashion retail, a sector with endemic low wages, precarity and a representation gap. Unions in Milan organized ‘zero-hours contract’ workers, while their counterparts in New York established an alternative channel of representation, the Retail Action Project. We argue, first, that the dynamics of both cases are counterintuitive, displaying institution-building in the USA and grassroots mobilization in Italy; second, union identity stands out as a key revitalizing factor, since only those unions with a broad working-class orientation could provide an effective representation for fashion retail workers.

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