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WCP: Social Class and Trump Voters
More than a year after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, journalists are still making sense of the role of social class in the outcome. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metzgar focuses on a recent Politico article that made waves to show how reporters often misdefine “the white working class,” leading many progressives to learn the wrong lessons from Trump’s election.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Spring into a Semester of Social Justice
With hundreds of courses offered each semester, it can hard to identify classes and professors that center issues of worker rights and social justice. We compiled this list to make that a bit easier
Category: Labor Studies
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SCOTT: Equalize Employment Process
Amanda L. Scott is an Alabama native, D.C. transplant, civil rights paralegal in the Georgetown University Class of 2019. I almost missed out on my dream job because of $400 in medical debt. After
Categories: Articles, Student Leaders
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WCP: Food Insecurity and the Costs of College
Higher education has become so inaccessible to working-class students that there are over 500 campus food pantries in the United States. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Allison L. Hurst de
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: The Precariat: Why a Basic Income is Vital
As work becomes increasingly unstable and insecure, economic inequality balloons. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Guy Standing makes the case for a universal basic income with supplements for disadvantaged groups as the only sustainable solution.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Worker Organizing Roundtable features Lane Windham’s Knocking on Labor’s Door
How can working people build power today when organizing a union is so difficult? That question was at the heart of a KI roundtable discussion on strategic twenty-first century worker organizing with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride, Jobs with Justice Organizing Director Erica Smiley, and KI Associate Director Lane Windham.
Categories: Events, Our Staff, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
