PAST Award Previous WCSA Award Winners

2019 Rubén Vega and Irene Díaz Memorias Culturales de un Pasado Industrial / Cultural Memories of the Industrial Past
2018 Lizzie Presser, “Below Deck”
2017 Gabriel Thompson, “Dark Meat“
2016 Christine Walley and Chris Boebel. Exit Zero (DVD)
2015 Michele Fazio and Jason Hutchens, Voices of the Lumbee (DVD)
2014 Monica Potts, “What’s Killing White Women?”
2013 Tony Buba and Tom Dubensky, We Are Alive: The Fight to Save Braddock Hospital (DVD)
2012 J. Malcolm Garcia, “Smoke Signals: They Survived Iraq—and Died at Home,” “Smoke Screen,” and “Breathing In”
2011 Chris Hedges (text), Joe Sacco (photography), “City of Ruins”
2010 Michael Zweig, Trish Dalton, & Mike Konopacki, “Why are we in Afghanistan?”
2008 Gabriel Thompson, “Meet the Wealth Gap”
2007 Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (DVD)

2019 by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Sacred Smokes
2019 Jeanne Bryner and Cortney Davis, editors, Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose
2018 David Joy, The Weight of This World
2017 David LaBounty, Workers Write: Tales From the Construction Site
2016 Mike Yarrow and Ruth Yarrow. Photographs by Douglas Yarrow. Voices from the Appalachian Coalfields
2015 David LaBounty, Ed. Workers Write! More Tales From the Cubicle
2014 Hakim Bellamy, Swear: Poems
2013 Paola Corso, The Laundress Catches Her Breath
2012 Mary Bucci Bush, Sweet Hope: a Novel
2011 Jeanne Bryner, No Matter How Many Windows: Poems
2010 Jenifer Rae Vernon, Rock Candy
2008 John Marsh, You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41
2007 Jim Daniels and Charlee Brodsky, Street

2019 Sherry Lee Linkon, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
2018 David Roediger, Class, Race, and Marxism
2018 Scott Henkel, Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
2017 Angela Stuesse, Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South
2016 Ann Folino White, Plowed Under: Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America
2016 Julie M. Weise, Corazón de Dixie: Mexicans in the U.S. South Since 1910
2015 Linda Tirado, Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America. 2014. Putnam/Penguin Press
2014 Christine Walley, Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
2013 J.T Way, The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala
2012 Franco Barchiesi, Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa
2012 Sean Burns, Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero
2011 Jarod Roll, Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South
2010 Steven K. Ashby, C.J. Hawking, Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement
2008 David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
2007 Nicholas de Genova, Working the Boundaries: Race, Space and ‘Illegality’ in Mexican Chicago

2019 Peter Cole, “Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism”
2018 Liza Sapir Flood, “Instrument in Tow: Bringing Musical Skills to the Field”
2017 Diana Garvin, “Singing Truth to Power: Melodic Resistance and Bodily Revolt in Italy’s Rice Fields,” Annali d’italianistica 34 (2016). Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy
2016 Geoff Bright, “‘The Lady is Not Returning!’: Educational Precarity and a Social Haunting in the UK Coalfields”
2015 Patrick J. Finn, “Unrest In Grosvenor Square: Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools, Working-Class Public Schools, and Socialist Sunday Schools”
2015 Michelle M. Tokarczyk,“Toward an Imagined Solidarity in the Working-Class Epic: Chris Llewellyn’s Fragments from the Fire and Diane Gilliam Fisher’s Kettle Bottom”
2014 Gretchen Purser, “The Labour of Liminality”
2013 Tim Libretti, “Working the Case: The Wire and Working-Class Cops on American Television”
2012 Stephen Brier, “Italian Militants and Migrants and the Language of Solidarity in the Early-Twentieth-Century Western Coalfields”
2011 Heath W. Carter, “Scab Ministers, Striking Saints: Christianity and Class Conflict in 1894 Chicago”
2010 Elna C. Green, “Relief from Relief: The Tampa Sewing-Room Strike of 1937 and the Right to Welfare”
2008 Alan Derickson, “‘Asleep and Awake at the Same Time’: Sleep Denial among Pullman Porters”

2019 Alexandrea J. Ravenelle The New Entrepreneur: Worker Experiences in the Sharing Economy
2018 Steffan Blayney, Health & Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work and the Working Body in Britain, c. 1870-1939
2018 Simon Lee, Working-Class Heroics: The Intersection of Class and Space in British Post- War Writing
2017 Jackie Gabriel, “Manufacturing Precarity: A Case Study of the Grain Processing Corporation (GPC)/United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 86D Lockout in Muscatine, Iowa”
2016 Gregory Rosenthal, Hawaiians Who Left Hawaii: Work, Body, and Environment in the Pacific World, 1786-1876
2015 Jen Schradie, This is (Not) What Democracy Looks Like: How Ideology, Hierarchy and Inequality Shape Digital Activism
2014 No Award Given
2013 Sara Appel, Football Wishes and Fashion Fair Dreams: Class and the Problem of Upward Mobility in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture
2012 Jamie K. McCallum, In Dubious Battle: A Case Study of the New Labor Transnationalism
2010 Tiffany Knight Raymond, Labor, Performance, and Theatre: Strike Culture and the Emergence of Organized Labor in the 1930’s
2009 Michele Fazio, Between Mothers and Sons: Narrative Performances of American Identities in Italian American Literature
2007 Terry Easton, Temporary Work, Contingent Lives: Race, Immigration, and Transformations of Atlanta’s Daily Work, Daily Pay