#nancy welch

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The Nancy Welch Show

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Particularly in a moment when far-right groups have seized upon means to project loudly their arguments, and when the hopes of many for basic reforms, from single-payer health care to equitable compensation for adjunct faculty are thwarted, we might investigate how from Lawrence’s Bread and Roses strike of 1912 to the 2006 Day without an Immigrant walk-out, effective movements for economic and social justice have played against as much as with reigning ideas of decorum and civility.

Nancy Welch, “‘We’re Here, and We’re Not Going Anywhere’: Why Working-Class Rhetorical Traditions Still Matter’”

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. . . civility functions to hold in check agitation against a social order that is undemocratic in access to decision-making voice and unequal in distribution of wealth.

Nancy Welch, “Informed, Passionate, and Disorderly: Uncivil Rhetoric in a New Gilded Age”