Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness

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 autobiographies of writers, educators, artist...