Includes bibliographical references.

School Clothes / Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel -- Go See Jack London / Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel -- Stories from a Working-Class Childhood / Lisa Orr -- "Proud to Work for the University" / Kristin Kovacic -- Ruth in August / Barbara Hom -- Death Mask / Joann Quinones -- For Giacomo / Edvige Giunta -- El olor de cansansio (The Smell of Fatigue) / Melida Rodas -- The Pawnbroker's Window / Pat Wynne -- Praise the Waitresses / Pat Wynne -- Faces in the Hands / Carolyn Chute -- 'We Did Change Some Attitudes': Maida Springer-Kemp and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union / Edited by Brigid O'Farrell and Joyce L. Kornbluh -- Autobiography and Reconstructing Subjectivity at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1938 / Karyn L. Hollis -- Working Class Consciousness in Jo Sinclair's The Seasons / Florence Howe -- The Writing on the Wall, Or Where Did That Dead Head Come From? / Cy-Thea Sand -- Autobiographies by American Working-Class Women: A Bibliography / Cheryl Cline -- Reclaiming Our Working-Class Identities: Teaching Working-Class Studies in a Blue-Collar Community (with syllabi) / Linda Strom -- A Wealth of Possibilities: Workers, Texts, and the English Department / Laura Hapke -- A Community of Workers (photos and text) / Marilyn Anderson -- 'Women Have Always Sewed': The Production of Clothing and the Work of Women / Janet Zandy -- The Fire Poems. Introduction / Janet Zandy. Sisters in the Flames / Carol Tarlen. rituals of spring (for the 78th anniversary of the shirtwaist factory fire) / Safiya Henderson-Holmes -- Readerly/Writerly Relations and Social Change: The Maimie Papers as Literature / Carole Anne Taylor -- Between Theories and Anti-Theories: Moving Toward Marginal Women's Subjectivities / Roxanne Rimstead -- 'People Who Might Have Been You': Agency and the Damaged Self in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio / Lisa Orr -- Industrial Music: Contemporary American Working-Class Poetry and Modernism / Julia Stein -- U.S. Working-Class Women's Fiction: Notes Toward an Overview / Constance Coiner -- Traveling Working Class / Janet Zandy -- Building a Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University / Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo -- The Rochester Education Alliance of Labor Work-Based Curriculum Project / Douglas D. Noble -- Honor Thy Students: The Power of Writing / Edvige Giunta -- Mining Class: A Bibliographic Essay / Laura Hapke -- Working, Buying, and Becoming: Race, Labor, and the High Life, from the Plantation to the Internet (syllabus) / Todd Vogel -- Working-Class Studies and the Question of Proletarian Literature in the United States: A Graduate Seminar in American Literature (syllabus) / Will Watson -- Women and Work in U.S. History (syllabus) / Peter Rachleff -- Poor in America (syllabus) / Chuck Barone -- American Capitalism (syllabus) / Chuck Barone -- Who Does the Work? A One-Day Introduction to American Working-Class Literature (syllabus) / Julia Stein -- Working-Class Literature and Film (syllabus with student writing) / Larry Smith, Carolyn J. Garcia and Julia Morton / [et al.] -- Labor Documentaries: A Filmography / Tom Zaniello -- American Working-Class Literature: A Selected Bibliography / Nicholas Coles.