I think I could quibble with this based on whether or not the author was really working class, but that would be to miss the point. I could also ask how much the Age Effect in Stanford Encyclopedia citations is also a working class effect. I don't know. I think though that there is a real difference in being an academic from the working class (or something like the working class, for those of us who eschew Marxist analysis) and an academic from the privileged class. It has less to do with skills and abilities, and more to do with background assumptions, vocabulary, and mannerisms, and everything to do with whether you get cited after you're dead or not. History, after all, is written by the rich.
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