Review of Who Says? Working-Class Rhetoric. Class Consciousness. and Community edited by William DeGenaro by Tom Deans
Little did I know how fascinating a group of workers pouring concrete could be. Yet Dale Cyphert’s rhetorical analysis of the practice makes it so. Really. Her interpretation of the “dance of decision-making” that workers perform as they shovel, pour and level reveals a cultural logic of cooperation that stands in sharp contrast to middle-class…