Working Class

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The group's a big tent for readers who self-identify as working class and who grew up in working-class families and locales, but it is also for anyone who reads books about the working class, books about labor and labor history, books from small presses, and books that have a connection to labor, be the connection direct or oblique, imaginative or journalistic, spiritual or social, personal or political, and combinations thereof. (The photo is of workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, the building of which burned in a notorious, deadly fire in 1911.)

TopicTopicMessagesLast Message 
Labor History LT Book List2 unread / 2TLCrawford, January 2014
Recommended working-class writing?40 unread / 40HarryMacDonald, October 2012
Working-Class Fiction Group Read?5 unread / 5fondon, March 2012
Labor and the Legacy Libraries6 unread / 6ostrom, February 2009
Hardest or Worst Job Ever?21 unread / 21robbieg_422, November 2008
Favorite Summer Job as a Kid?7 unread / 7dlweeks, October 2008
Academics, Politicos, Faux-Proles and the like6 unread / 6TLCrawford, May 2008
British Film: Mike Leigh vs. Ken Loach?4 unread / 4krolik, April 2008
Is writing work?5 unread / 5BGP, April 2008
Abraham Lincoln Battalion5 unread / 5ostrom, April 2008
Working-Class websites?6 unread / 6dodger, April 2008
Haymarket Square5 unread / 5TLCrawford, April 2008
Working-Class Movies?14 unread / 14ostrom, March 2008
Working-Class Short Stories?5 unread / 5elle.wilson, March 2008
Old School Labor Writing? Any Recommendations?4 unread / 4lilithcat, February 2008
Young Adult Literature?4 unread / 4TLCrawford, February 2008
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