Worker Writers: Community Archiving in Action (National Council of Teachers of English, 2025), by Boston College Assistant Professor of English Jessica Pauszek, brings together conversations in community literacy, archival methods, and working-class studies to explore the process of collaboratively creating an archive focused on the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, a transnational writing network (1976-2007). Pauszek explores the FWWCP Archival Project, which has enabled the creation of a publicly accessible print and digital archive of thousands of working-class community publications and administrative documents. Her publication offers a framework for community partnership and archival work that explicitly accounts for working-class identities and class-based structures, provides insights on the embodied archival process, illustrates the possibilities of community-based archival work, and argues for the importance of preserving working-class writing and literacy. Pauszek, who writes about labor, de-industrialization, and immigration, directs the First-Year Writing Seminar at BC.
Archiving working-class community publications
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