Opportunities & Announcements

Call for Papers: The New Labor History

Labor History aims to be the pre-eminent site for scholarship in the history of work and its representation, labor systems, social reproduction of labor, social class, occupational culture and folklore, and worker migration as well as the place to go for new research and argument on the history of the labor movement, labor politics, and industrial conflict and regulation.

Call for Papers: Class in America Book Series

Class in America, a new book series from University of Nebraska Press, will focus on class in the humanities and social sciences.

Call for Papers: Poetry Submissions

Jim Daniels, poetry editor for Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas and for The Minnesota Review is looking for poems directly connected to work and social class for either journal.

Call for Book Manuscripts: Mobility and Education

Works in Mobility Studies and Education will explore the complicated and shifting landscapes of wealth, opportunity, social class, and education in the changing global economic landscape, particularly at the intersections of race, ethnicity, religion, and gender.

Research Support

The Center for Working-Class Studies can provide office space, networked computers, and access to our library and the YSU library for graduate students and/or academics who are doing research in working-class studies or on Youngstown. For more information, e-mail Sherry Linkon or call 330-941-2977.

Graduate Certificate for Working-Class Studies

CWCS offers a four-course certificate (12 semester hours) at Youngstown State University that is designed to provide students with an interdisciplinary overview of the history and political and cultural meanings of working-class life.