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WCP: Time to Deliver: How Biden Should Respond to the Insurrection
The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has multiple roots, but one contributing factor is clear: the erosion of hope among tens of millions of people who no longer have faith in the Americ
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Call for Proposals: A New Social Compact
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University is convening a major public virtual gathering April 28 - May 1, 2021, to envision, define, and lay the groundwork fo
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WCP: Will 2021 Bring Positive Change for Working-Class People?
As we've noted many times, the pandemic has hit working-class people around the world especially hard. But as Sarah Attfield reminds us in Working-Class Perspectives this week, the incredible hardshi
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WCP: Beyond Economic Populism
Debates about working-class voters often treat them as a marketing problem, a way of thinking that reflects the commentators’ sense of superiority to people they view as deluded, foolish, stupid, or
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Meet the Organizing Committee: New Social Compact
Summer 2022 Gathering Organizing Committee Laura Gutierrez, AFL-CIO Carlos Jimenez, AFL-CIO Cathy Feingold, AFL-CIO Mary Cathryn Ricker, Albert Shanker Institute Carlos Torrealba, Ce
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WCP: Christmas (and Class) Behind the Scenes
We think of Christmas movies as feel-good reminders of the joys of the season, but as Kathy M. Newman writes in Working-Class Perspectives this week, they are also movies about work. And when we look
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WCP: Rethinking Working-Class Belonging
Belonging is a central theme and a strength of working-class culture, a source of pleasure and of collective agency. Yet it can also be divisive, emphasizing how "we" are different from "them" -- a w
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WCP: Toxic Class Encounters
While more working-class students have entered colleges and universities in the last few decades, neither the entitled behavior of more privileged students nor the prejudices against working-class st
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What happened to America’s working class? Race, Gender, Capitalism, and Power.
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham gave a series of talks at the University of Wisconsin in coordination with the The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Talks entitled, "Blue-Collar Battle: Th
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WCP: Cultural and Political Diversity in the White Working-Class
All too often, political commentators describe working-class whites as if they were all the same -- ignorant, backward, deplorable. But as Jack Metzgar writes in Working-Class Perspectives this week,
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