Bread and Roses Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Clas
Bread and Roses is an Australian first, a collection of stories from academics who identify as coming from working-class backgrounds. At once inspiring and challenging, the collection demonstrates how individual narratives are both personal and structural
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Bread and Roses Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class
Edited by Dee Michell University of Adelaide, Australia Jacqueline Z. Wilson Federation University Australia and Verity Archer Federation University Australia
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ISBN: 978-94-6300-125-0 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-126-7 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-127-4 (e-book)
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Table of Contents
Introduction: A Working-Class World-View in an Academic Environment Dee Michell, Jacqueline Z. Wilson and Verity Archer
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Part 1: Identity 1. The ‘C’ Word: Class, Migrants and Academia May Ngo 2. I Didn’t Work for It: The Acquisition of an Academic Habitus (Or How a Working-Class Kid Got a Middle-Class Job) Martin Forsey 3. ‘Stumbling Forwards – Understanding Backwards’: Some Puzzles in the Life of One Working-Class Breakthrough Rob Watts
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4. Which Voice? Which Working Class? Terry Irving
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5. Wog Westie Feminist: Or the Evidence of Experience Zora Simic
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6. Reinventing the Self in Academia: Negotiating the Intersections of Class, Race and Gender Pam Papadelos
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7. A Space for Self-Fashioning: An Antipodean Red-Diaper Baby Goes to University in the Sixties John Docker
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Part 2: Alternative Pathways 8. You Can Take the Girl out of Reservoir Gwenda Tavan 9. From Blue Collar to Academic Gown: The Making of a Scholar from the Working Class Andrew P. Lynch 10. Injuries and Privileges: Being a White Working-Class Academic Man Bob Pease
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Part 3: Rural Settings 11. From the Island to the Mainland (and Back?) Naomi Parry 12. First in the Family: Girls Like Us in the Third Space of Regional Universities Anitra Goriss Hunter and Jenene Burke
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Part 4: The Academic Workplace 13. Is There Anything Better than Working Class? Georgina Tsolidis
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14. Constructing a Pedigree Adele Chynoweth
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15. A Hooligan in the Hallway? Heather Fraser
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16. Social Justice, Respect and Professional Integrity: The Social Work Discipline and Profession as a Place of Congruence for Working Class Academics Grace Brown, Melissa Petrakis, Catherine Flynn, Bernadette Saunders, Philip Mendes and Marija Dragic 17. From the Shtetl to the Academy: One Person’s Journey Howard Karger 18. From Being a Fish out of Water to Swimming with the School: Notes from a Class Traveller in Australian Higher Education Greg Marston 19. Working amongst the ‘Dregs
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