Month: December 2021

Where in the World?

Where in the world are our members from and where are they now? As part of the Working Class Studies Association website redesign project we are hoping to include a map that visually represents where our members are located & where they are from originally. Please share your responses on our Google form by 7th January 2022 if you would like to be represented. 

You will remain anonymous on the map. Email wcsasite@gmail.com with any questions.

Google form: https://forms.gle/C9TYH2qaExDW9EvDA

Thanks so much everyone and happy new year!

Only a Week Left to Submit Your Proposals for our 2022 Conference

The deadline for submissions for our 2022 conference ‘Class Dynamics at Work’ is next Wednesday 15th December 2021. The conference will be held in beautiful Corvallis, Oregon from June 20th to June 23rd. See the 2022 Conference Call and a downloadable template to use with submissions: Proposal Form.

Please email submissions and any questions you may have to wcsa2022conference@gmail.com

Two Weeks Until the Closing Date for Submission of Proposals for the WCSA 2022 Conference

We would like to remind you all that there are just two weeks left for the submission of your proposals for our next Working-Class Studies Association Conference to be held in Corvallis, Oregon from June 20th to the 23rd, 2022. The closing date for submissions is December 15th 2021. Our conference this year focuses on Class Dynamics at Work. Themes and topics for proposals might include, but are not limited to:

• Laboring in the “Knowledge Factory,” or Class in Higher Education 

• Work and COVID-19

• Intersections of Class, Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity, Gender, Sexuality, and/or Ability • Class and the Environment/Climate Change

• Class in Literature, Art, and Media 

• Capitalism and Empire 

• Global, Regional, and Migrant Working Classes 

• Populism, Nationalism, and/or Class “Culture Wars” 

• Poverty and Class Experiences 

• Urban/Rural Working-Class Life 

• Post and De-Industrialization 

• Class and Colonialism 

• Place, Belonging, and Class 

• The End of Wage Labor?  

• Working-Class Academic (panel dedicated to WCA issues) 

Our full Call for Papers can be found here. To submit a proposal fill in this proposal form and return it to wcsa2022conference@gmail.com.