476 CCC 61:3 / FEBRUARY 2010 CCC 61:3 / FEBRUARY 2010 Steve Parks and Nick Pollard Emergent Strategies for an Established Field: The Role of Worker-Writer Collectives in Composition and Rhetoric We argue that the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, with its dual emphasis on literacy and occupational skills, can serve as a new model for writing classrooms and writing program administrators. We further contend that the “contact zone” classroom should be replaced with community-based “federations.” Perhaps if you saw me As more than a server Grant me the credit I merit Dispose of your pity or mockery— Recognize the resemblance? Could I be you? —Danielle Quigley, “Server” Ordinary people make rhetorical space through a concerted, often protracted struggle for visibility, voice, and impact against powerful interests that seek to render them invisible. People take and make space in acts that are simultaneously verbal and physical. —Nancy Welch, Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World h476-000-Feb10-CCC.indd 476 1/6/10 4:30 PM