Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : What are working-class rhetorics? / William DeGenaro
  • Articulating the values of labor and laboring : civic rhetoric and heritage tourism / James V. Catano
  • "Miners starve, idle or working" : working-class rhetoric of the early twentieth century / Judith D. Hoover
  • "Don't let them step on you" : gender, class, and ethnicity in the rhetoric of the great strikes, 1909-1913 / Anne F. Mattina
  • Unsettling working-class commonplaces in Jane Addams's Settlement House rhetoric / Melissa J. Fiesta
  • The culture of steel and memory : a rhetorical analysis of the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor / Anthony Esposito
  • The rhetoric of migrant farmworkers / Emily Plec
  • Miles of trials : the life and livelihood of the long-haul trucker / Melanie Bailey Mills
  • Rhetoric on the concrete pour : the dance of decision making / Dale Cyphert
  • Workplace risk communication : a look at literate practice within rhetorical frameworks / Lew Caccia
  • Problematized providing and protecting : the occupational narrative of the working class / Kristen Lucas
  • The rhetorics of reality TV and the feminization of working-class identity / Catherine Chaput
  • The rhetoric of "I have a dream" : the remix / Kermit Campbell
  • Fatness as the embodiment of working-class rhetoric / Kathleen LeBesco
  • Establishing counterhegemony through narrative : the comic books of the Congress of Industrial Organizations / Steve Martin
  • Conclusion : Working-class rhetoric as ethnographic subject / Julie Lindquist.