The Working-Class Studies Association – an international, multidisciplinary network that supports scholarship, teaching, and activism related to working-class life and cultures – hosts conferences, cultural sharing and webinars.
Join us for lively, interactive, free online sessions with cutting-edge thinkers about class and social justice, organized by long-time WCSA leader Jack Metzgar and me, Betsy Leondar-Wright.
UPCOMING TALKING CLASS WEBINARS
Exposing Myths About Race & Class to Reconstruct Democracy - with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
- January 23, 2025.
Talk about solidarity with white people in poverty with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, co-author with Rev. William J. Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign of the new book White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
Sociologists Have Class Too: How Class Background Shapes Academic Careers With Allison Hurst
- March 13, 2025.
In this webinar, the latest in the “Talking Class” series of the Working-Class Studies Association, hosts Jack Metzgar and Betsy Leondar-Wright will ask Allison Hurst about her interview-based study of sociologists who grew up poor, working-class, and/or were first in their families to earn a college degree.
- Wednesday, September 25th, 2024, 7 pm ET
How can a working-class background make you more successful as a professional?
Here’s the recording of the webinar: https://youtu.be/312T2NVzdf0
What Professionals Get Wrong About White Working-Class Voters and Their Lives - with Farah Stockman, Jack Metzgar and Betsy Leondar-Wright
- October 30, 2022, 8 - 9:30 pm ET
Sponsored by the Working-Class Studies Association webinar
Frequently Asked Questions
Contact organizers Betsy Leondar-Wright, betsy@classmatters.org, and Jack Metzgar, jackmetz1@comcast.net.
We plan to continue this bimonthly schedule, so watch this space for the May and July webinars.
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