This book examines how a working-class habitus interacts with the elite culture of academia in higher education. Drawing on extensive qualitative data and infor

This book is a twist on the current discourse around ‘inclusivity’ and ‘widening participation’. Higher education is welcoming students from diverse edu

In this second edition, twenty-four college professors, with roots in the working class, discuss the experience of significant upward mobility and the problems

Affecting stories of faculty and graduate students from working-class on their struggles in academia.

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone