Coming to Class: Looking at Education through the Lens of Class Introduction to the Class and Education Special Issue

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Felice Yeskel, the Executive Director of Class Action (www.classism.org), a national, non-profit organization inspiring action to end classism, is an adjunct faculty member of the Social Justice Education Program in the School of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and was a founder of United for a Fair Economy. She comes from a Jewish, working-class family from New York City's lower-east side and has led hundreds of workshops and given talks across the country about economic inequality and about healing divisions among people of different class backgrounds, races, genders, and sexual orientations. Notes 1. I would like to thank the following folks for their input, research assistance, editorial comments, and moral support in the writing of this Introduction: Maurianne Adams, Matt Bannish, Caroline Houston Bauer, Rachel Briggs, Elly Bulkin, Felicia Mednick, Sarah Reid, Laine Rutherford, Rachel Rybaczuk, Maynard Seider, Rhonda Soto, Ruth Trimarchi, and Elaine Whitlock. 2. If the minimum wage was worth in today's dollars (2007) what it was worth in 1968, it would be $9.75 per hour.