Description: Worker Writers brings together conversations in community literacy, archival methods, and working-class studies to explore the process of collaboratively creating an archive focused on the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, a transnational writing network between 1976 and 2007. Detailing a decade-long collaboration, Pauszek explores the FWWCP Archival Project, which has enabled the creation of a publicly accessible print and digital archive of thousands of working-class community publications and administrative documents.
Additionally, this book:
- Offers a framework for community partnership and archival work that explicitly accounts for working-class identities and class-based structures such as labor, finances, and precarious material resources.
- Provides insights on the embodied archival processes, useful for teams doing documentation work.
- Illustrates the possibilities of community-based archival work.
- Argues for the importance of preserving working-class writing and literacy.
Review Quotes:
"Worker Writers is a vital intervention into academic and public debates about the working class and their politics. Pauszek documents not only how working-class writers and publishers created an inclusive international working-class identity, but the literacies and critical pedagogies which produced it. For anyone interested in how to respond to the current attacks on the working class, Worker Writers is must reading."
--Ira Shor, author, Critical Teaching and Everyday Life