Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness

by Janet Zandy

Book Overview

This is a book about working-class identity, consciousness, and self-determination. It offers an alternative to middle-class assimiliation and working-class amnesia. The twenty-five contributors use memory--both personal and collective--to show the relationship between the uncertain economic rhythms of working-class life and the possibilities for cultural and political agency. Manual labor and intellectual work are connected in these multicultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081352122X
• ISBN13: 9780813521220
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"