"Working-ClassLiterature(s)" provides a wide-ranging account of earlier theoretical models of working-class writing and an assessment of their achievements and limitations. Arguing against the ‘fetishization of certain periods’, which ‘risks associating working-class literature with specific literary forms and specific historical conditions, including specific manifestations of the working class’, he insists that it is a ‘diverse and constantly changing phenomenon’. Working-class writing employs a variety of strategies that are shaped by the changing conditions in which it intervenes, as it explores definitions of both class and literature, as well as the functions these serve. Its analysis must consequently be carefully contextualized as well as theoretically informed. Nilsson insists on a more international perspective, sensitive to the specific material and cultural contexts within which writers worked and in particular to struggles marginalized in accounts centred on writing from Britain and the United States.