Introduction : What's new about new working-class studies? / John Russo, Sherry Lee Linkon -- Gender, class, and history / Elizabeth Faue -- "More than two things" : the state of the art of labor history / David Roediger -- "All I wanted was a steady job" : the state and African American workers / Kimberley L. Phillips -- "This mill won't run no more" : oral history and deindustrialization / Alessandro Portelli -- Under construction : working-class writing / Paul Lauter -- Working-class geographies : capital, space, and place / Don Mitchell -- Class as a question in economics / Michael Zweig -- Work poetry and working-class poetry : the zip code of the heart / Jim Daniels -- Class memory : autobiography and the art of forgetting / Tim Strangleman -- Filming class / Tom Zaniello -- "Working man's Ph.D." : the music of working-class studies / Rachel Lee Rubin -- Politics and the American class vernacular / Jack Metzgar -- New working-class studies in higher education / Renny Christopher -- Building class identity : lessons from labor education / Robert Bruno, Lisa Jordan