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Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies
No full textThe 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. The Handbook brings together scholars, teachers, activists, and organizers from across three continents to focus on the study of working-class peoples, cultures, and politics in all their complexity and diversity
Working-class studies, oral history and industrial illness
Full text linkSocial class was and continues to be a key determinant of health and well-being: materialist interpretations that emphasize the importance of economic power relations have real traction in explaining patterns of mortality and morbidity in industrial and post-industrial societies. Health sociologist Clare Bambra, for example, has recently argued that 'Paid work, or lack of it, is the most important determinant of population health and health inequalities in advanced market democracies' (Bambra, 2012, ix). My argument, however, is that to really comprehend what is happening here we need to understand work-health cultures – that is the way that workers experienced, understood, reacted to and narrated such power relationships in their homes and workplaces. What did ill-health, disability and death signify and mean to individuals, to families, and to working-class communities? What impact did it have? And how did workers react to risk and manage illness, mobilise and organize around these issues? It is the contention here that for the period within living memory these sorts of questions can be elucidated by an oral history approach, developing a dialogue with those directly affected. We need to listen (and to listen closely) to workers' voices to connect better to their worlds. Recently oral historians Michelle Winslow and Graham Smith commented: 'It is a mark of the contribution of oral history to the history of medicine that studies located within living memory are open to criticism if they fail to include oral history' (Winslow and Smith, 2011, 372). A similar case might be made for working-class studies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Goode, J., ed. (2019) Clever Girls: Autoethnographies of Class, Gender, and Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Metzgar, J. (2021) Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society. ILR Press.
No full textSmarsh, Sarah (2018) Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, Scribner, New York, NY.
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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