Dee Michell & Jacqueline Z. Wilson 
Bread and Roses [PDF ebook] 
Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class

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 social forces shape individual lives. Central themes in the book are generational changes in university education provision in Australia, the complexities of coming from a working class background and being female, or coming from a working class background and being female and a recent migrant, and the particular challenges facing students and staff from rural and regional areas. An essential read for anyone interested in widening participation programs in higher education, including administrators, academics, past and present students, Bread and Roses is both a map for those who want to undertake a similar journey and a community for those who want to join.

Tabella dei contenuti

Introduction: A Working-Class World-View in an Academic Environment; Part 1: Identity; The ‘C’ Word: Class, Migrants and Academia; I Didn’t Work for It: The Acquisition of an Academic Habitus (Or How a Working-Class Kid Got a Middle-Class Job); ‘Stumbling Forwards – Understanding Backwards’: Some Puzzles in the Life of One Working-Class Breakthrough; Which Voice? Which Working Class?; Wog Westie Feminist: Or the Evidence of Experience; Reinventing the Self in Academia: Negotiating the Intersections of Class, Race and Gender; A Space for Self-Fashioning: An Antipodean Red-Diaper Baby Goes to University in the Sixties; Part 2: Alternative Pathways; You Can Take the Girl out of Reservoir; From Blue Collar to Academic Gown: The Making of a Scholar from the Working Class; Injuries and Privileges: Being a White Working-Class Academic Man; Part 3: Rural Settings; From the Island to the Mainland (and Back?); First in the Family: Girls Like Us in the Third Space of Regional Universities; Part 4: The Academic Workplace; Is There Anything Better than Working Class?; Constructing a Pedigree; A Hooligan in the Hallway?; Social Justice, Respect and Professional Integrity: The Social Work Discipline and Profession as a Place of Congruence for Working Class Academics; From the Shtetl to the Academy: One Person’s Journey; From Being a Fish out of Water to Swimming with the School: Notes from a Class Traveller in Australian Higher Education; Working amongst the ‘Dregs of the Middle Class’.