Bread and Roses : : Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class / / edited by Dee Michell, Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Verity Archer.

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, in that they illustrate the ways in which s...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (188 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Dee Michell , Jacqueline Z. Wilson and Verity Archer
  • The ‘C’ Word / May Ngo
  • I Didn’t Work for It / Martin Forsey
  • ‘Stumbling Forwards – Understanding Backwards’ / Rob Watts
  • Which Voice? Which Working Class? / Terry Irving
  • Wog Westie Feminist / Zora Simic
  • Reinventing the Self in Academia / Pam Papadelos
  • A Space for Self-Fashioning / John Docker
  • You Can Take the Girl out of Reservoir / Gwenda Tavan
  • From Blue Collar to Academic Gown / Andrew P. Lynch
  • Injuries and Privileges / Bob Pease
  • From the Island to the Mainland (and Back?) / Naomi Parry
  • First in the Family / Hunter Anitra Goriss and Burke Jenene
  • Is There Anything Better than Working Class? / Georgina Tsolidis
  • Constructing a Pedigree / Adele Chynoweth
  • A Hooligan in the Hallway? / Heather Fraser
  • Social Justice, Respect and Professional Integrity / Grace Brown , Melissa Petrakis , Catherine Flynn , Bernadette Saunders , Philip Mendes and Marija Dragic
  • From the Shtetl to the Academy / Howard Karger
  • From Being a Fish out of Water to Swimming with the School / Greg Marston
  • Working amongst the ‘Dregs of the Middle Class’ / John Scott.