The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1990s in the context of deindustrialization, the rise of the service economy, and economic and cultural globalization.

Introduction Part I: Methods and Principles of Research in Working-Class Studies Section Introduction: Methods and Principles of Research in Working-Class Studies 1. Class Analysis from the Inside: Scholarly Personal Narrative as a Signature Genre of Working-Class Studies 2. Reconceiving Class in Contemporary Working-Class Studies 3. Mediating Stories of Class Borders: First Generation College Students, Digital Storytelling, and Social Class 4. The 'How to' of Working-Class Studies: Selves, Stories, and Working Across Media Part II: Class and Education Section Introduction: Class and Education 5. Class Beyond the Classroom: Supporting Working-Class and First-Generation Students, Faculty, and Staff 6. Working Class Student Experiences: Towards a Social Class-Sensitive Pedagogy for K-12 Schools, Teachers, and Teacher Educators 7. The Pedagogy of Class: Teaching Working-Class Life and Culture in the Academy 8. Being Working Class in the English Classroom 9. Getting Schooled: Working-Class Students in Higher Education 10. Learning Our Place: Social Reproduction in K-12 Schooling Part III: Work and Community Section Introduction: Work and Community 11. Deindustrialization and Its Consequences 12. Economic Dislocation and Trauma 13. Working-Class Studies, Oral History and Industrial Illness 14. Precarity's Affects: The Trauma of Deindustrialization 15. Feeling, Re-imagined in Common: Working with Social Haunting in the English Coalfields Part IV: Working-Class Cultures Section Introduction: Working-Class Cultures 16. There Is a Genuine Working-Class Culture 17. Class, Culture, and Inequality 18. Post-Traumatic Living: Precarious Employment and Learned Helplessness in the Working Class 19. Activist Class Cultures 20. The Australian Working Class in Popular Culture Part V: Representations Section Introduction: Representations 21. Writing Dubai: Indian Labour Migrants and Taxi Topographies 22. The Cinema of the Precariat 23. The 'Body of Labor' in U.S. Postwar Documentary Photography: A Working-Class Studies Perspective 24. Mapping Working-Class Art 25. 'Things that are left out': Working-Class Writing and the Idea of Literature 26. Lit-Grit: The Gritty and the Grim in Working-Class Cultural Production 27. Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor, Prison Writing 28. Marketing Millennial Women: Embodied Class Performativity on American Television Part VI: Activism and Collective Action Section Introduction: Activism and Collective Action 29. From Stigma to Solution: Centering the Community College through Activism in the Classroom and the Community 30. Border Crossing with Day Laborers and Affordable Housing Activists 31. Finding Class in Food Justice Efforts 32. The Mutual Determination of Class and Race in the United States: History and Current Implications 33. Documenting Lumbee Working-Class History: A Service-Learning Approach 34. Precarious Workers and Social Mobilization in Portuguese Call Centre Assembly Lines 35. Post-Fordist Affect: Unions, the Labor Movement, and the Weight of History Conclusion