It helps to understand the general characteristics of working-class writing Working-Class Writing is grounded in lived experience showing characters as human persons in a lived space, depicting our daily life including actual physical work and how it shapes our lives. It is written by, not about working people. Working-Class Writing creates space for people to speak and represent ourselves, it includes speech idioms and dialects, curses and blessings. Working-Class Writing is communal in nature. The individual "I" is speaking for the collective "We." Readers can recognize themselves in the writing; it gives validation to their own stories and culture. Working-Class Writing gives language to human suffering and grief. Economics forces are recognized thus giving validation to deep feelings often ignored by mainstream art. Working-Class Writing has agency in the world, it tells or teaches us something and is useful. Working-Class Writing includes force...