Introduction: Teaching working class / Sherry Lee Linkon Writing the personal: narrative, social class, and feminist pedagogy / Ann E. Green Border crossings: working-class encounters in higher education / Richard A. Greenwald and Elizabeth A. Grant Reversals of fortune: downward mobility and the writing of nontraditional students / Anne Aronson The (dis)location of culture: on the way to literacy / Joanna Brooks with Fern Cayetano Between dirty dishes and polished discourse: how working-class moms construct student identities / Eileen Ferretti The shape of the form: working-class students and the academic essay / Linda Adler-Kassner What kinds of tools? Teaching critical analysis and writing to working-class students / Joseph Heathcott "Just American"? Reversing ethnic and class assimilation in the academy / Caroline Pari To know, to remember, to realize: Illinois labor works a history workers can use / Robert Bruno and Lisa Jordon
Striking close to home: students confront the 1985 Hormel strike / Colette Hyman
Critical literacy and the organizing model of unionism: reading and writing history at a steelworkers' union hall / Kelly Belanger, Linda Strom, and John Russo
Telling toil: issues in teaching labor literature / Laura Hapke
Films of and for a working-class world / Tom Zaniello
Teaching working-class literature to mixed audiences / Renny Christopher
Class, race, and culture: teaching intercultural communication / Anthony Esposito
Immigrant fiction, working- and middle-class white students, and multicultural empathy: a pedagogical balancing act / Charles Johanningsmeier
Teaching the convergence of race and class in introductory Asian American studies / John Streamas
Difficult dialogues: working-class studies in a multicultural literature classroom / Terry Easton and Jennifer Lutzenberger.