Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work - Hardcover

Hurst, Allison L.; Nenga, Sandi Kawecka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1475822529 ISBN 13: 9781475822526

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2016

Synopsis

More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds while being aware that the goals of many colleges and universities stand in contrast to the recruitment and support of these students. This, combined with the fact that campuses are increasingly reliant on adjunct labor, makes it difficult for the contemporary tenure-track or tenured working-class academic to reconcile his or her position in the academy.

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About the Author

Allison L. Hurst is an assistant professor of sociology at Oregon State University, where she teaches courses on the sociology of education and theory. She is also one of the founders and the current acting president of the Association of Working-Class Academics, an organization composed of college faculty and staff who were the first in their families to graduate from college. She has written two books on the experiences and identity reformations of working-class college students,The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents(2010) andCollege and the Working Class(2012). Her current research focuses on the outcomes of college graduates, specifically the role of class and the impact of student debt.

Sandi Kawecka Nenga is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Her research interests include the sociology of youth, middle school peer cultures, youth engagement, social class as a lived experience, and the educational experiences of first-generation college students. Her research has been published in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Qualitative Sociology Review, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Journal of Youth Studies, and Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research. Her current research interests are the experiences of first-generation Latino high school students in a college readiness program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475822529
• ISBN 13: 9781475822526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 211