Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes inspiring accounts of working class communities and people telling their own stories, and weaves together examples of tangible and intangible heritage, place, history, memory, music and literature.
Rather than being framed in a social inclusion framework, which sees working class culture as a deficit, this book addresses the question What is labour and working class heritage, how does it differ or stand in opposition to dominant ways of understanding heritage and history, and in what ways is it used as a contemporary resource? It also explores how heritage is used in working class communities and by labour organisations, and considers what meanings and significance this heritage may have, while also identifying how and why communities and their heritage have been excluded. Drawing on new scholarship in heritage studies, social memory, the public history of labour and new working class studies, this volume highlights the heritage of working people, communities and organisations. Contributions are drawn from a number of Western countries including the USA, UK, Spain, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, and from a range of disciplines including heritage and museum studies, history, sociology, politics, archaeology and anthropology.
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes represents an innovative and useful resource for heritage and museum practitioners, students and academics concerned with understanding community heritage and the debate on social inclusion/exclusion. It offers new ways of understanding heritage, its values and consequences, and presents a challenge to dominant and traditional frameworks for understanding and identifying heritage and heritage making.
Laurajane Smith is ARC Future Fellow, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the Australian National University, Canberra. Her previous publications include Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage (2004); Uses of Heritage (2006) and Intangible Heritage (with Natsuko Akagawa, 2008). She is editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.
Paul A. Shackel is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. He has written several articles and books on labour, including The Archaeology of American Labor and Working Class Life (2009) and Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era (1996).
Gary Campbell is an independent researcher. He has worked and published with Laurajane Smith on working class heritage, and has a background in industrial sociology and political science. He has worked as a researcher for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
Series Editors:
William Logan and Laurajane Smith
Also in the series:
Heritage and Globalisation
Sophia Labadi and Colin Long
Intangible Heritage
Laurajane Smith and Natsuko Akagawa
Places of Pain and Shame
William Logan and Keir Reeves
Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights
Michele Langfield, William Logan and Mirad Nic Craith
New in 2011:
The Heritage of War
Martin Gegner and Bart Ziino
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes
Edited by
Laurajane Smith, Paul A. Shackel and
Gary Campbell
First published 2011
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Heritage, labour, and the working classes / edited by Laurajane Smith, Paul A. Shackel and Gary Campbell. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. LaborHistory. 2. Working classHistory. 3. Labor movementHistory. I. Smith, Laurajane. II. Shackel, Paul A. III. Campbell, Gary.
HD4841.H47 2011
331.88dc22
2010052683
ISBN: 978-0-415-61810-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-61811-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-81323-2 (ebk)
Illustrations
contributors
Michael Jessee Adkins holds a BA in Humanities and MA in Sociology from Marshall University. He is a military combat veteran, scholar and member of the National Anthropology Honour Society (Lambda Alpha, Beta Chapter). His research interests include social conflict theory, archaeology, Appalachian studies and working class social movements.
Sarah Attfield grew up in a working class family on a high-rise public housing estate in London. She now lives in Australia and completed a PhD in Australian working class poetry in 2007. She is currently working as a casual academic at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Michael Bailey teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex. He is the author or editor of The Uses of Richard Hoggart (with Ben Clarke and John K. Walton), Mediating Faiths (with Guy Redden), Richard Hoggart: Culture & Critique (with Mary Eagleton), Narrating Media History. His next book is provisionally titled, Beyond Cultural Studies. He has held visiting fellowships at Goldsmiths, University of London; the London School of Economics and Political Science; Wolfson College and the Centre for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge.
Jane Eva Baxter is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at DePaul University in Chicago. She is a historical archaeologist who does community-based archaeology in the Pullman neighbourhood, where she also bought her first home, a skilled workers cottage, in 2007. She volunteers as a docent and tour guide for the Pullman State Historic Site.
Kate Bowan is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, The Australian National University. She has published on early twentieth-century Australian music, and nineteenth-century music and politics. Her current project is with historian, Paul Pickering, on popular politics and music in the nineteenth-century British World, to be published by Manchester University Press.
Andrew H. Bullen
