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Which Voice? Which Working Class?

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I am an Australian academic – have been since 1964 – and I come from a working class family, but I don’t have a working-class voice. I mean this in two senses: my voice as it sounds, and my voice as evidence of a definitive identity.

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  1. Department of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia

    Terry Irving

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  1. University of Adelaide, Australia

    Dee Michell

  2. Federation University, Australia

    Jacqueline Z. Wilson

  3. Federation University, Australia

    Verity Archer

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Irving, T. (2015). Which Voice? Which Working Class?. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_4

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