Archive: Visiting Scholars

• WCP: Is the Worst Yet to Come for Unions?

  Union membership and power in the public sector have been steadily decreasing for decades, but recent court challenges and an influx of right-to-work laws are about to make a bad trend even worse. In

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Collective Bargaining, John Russo, Public Sector, right to work, Sherry Linkon, Union Density, Union Membership, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: For-Profit Colleges: Rough Times Ahead for Working-Class Students

  For-profit colleges promise a quality education and job training, but often fail working-class students and leave them struggling to stay afloat. The past decade has seen a number of measures introd

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, Emily White, For-Profit Colleges, Higher education, John Russo, Marc Dann, Sherry Linkon, Student Loans, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: On Race, Class, and Two Referendums in Richmond

  With Republicans at the helm in the Capitol, the labor movement must turn to state and local initiatives to advance a progressive agenda. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Steve Early points

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Ballot Measure, Health, John Russo, Politics, Richmond, Richmond Progressive Alliance, Sherry Linkon, Soda, Steve Early, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Working-Class Nostalgia

  Many commentators in the US and the UK have attributed support for Donald Trump and Brexit to yearning for a return to an idealized past. In this week's Working Class Perspective, Tim Strangleman de

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: John Russo, Nostalgia, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Voters

• WCP: Now Is the Time: Working-Class Studies in the Trump Era

  After endless analyses and commentaries on the factors that propelled Donald Trump to the Presidency, it is time to prepare for the road ahead. In this week's post, Sherry Linkon provides a blueprin

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Academia, Donald Trump, Higher education, John Russo, Presidential Election, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies

• WCP: Hidden Anxieties of the White Working Class

  To understand white working-class voters’ support for Trump, we have to consider not just their economic anxieties and political resentments, but also their cultural fears regarding the costs of elu

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Donald Trump, John Russo, Masculinity, Michelle M Tokarczyk, Political Correctness, Presidential Election, Rust Belt, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Everyday Encounters: Antagonism in the Sharing Economy

  Both workers and consumers are bearing the brunt of changes to contemporary service industry jobs caused by the advent of the sharing economy. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Diane Negra a

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Amazon, Customer Service, Diane Negra, Digital Platforms, Gig Economy, John Russo, Sharing economy, Sherry Linkon, Technology, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: I, Daniel Blake and The Power of Working-Class Story Telling

  Great films about the working class have the capacity to inspire political action as well as empathy. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield explains why I, Daniel Blake (2016) is

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Austerity, Films, Great Britain, I Daniel Blake, John Russo, Movies, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, United Kingdom, WCP, Welfare, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Deindustrialisation, Deregulation, and Division: The Case of Shirebrook and Sports Direct

  The prospect of revitalizing domestic manufacturing after decades of deindustrialization and outsourcing generates plenty of excitement. As some industrial work returns to the United States and Grea

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Deindustrialization, James Pattison, John Russo, Outsourcing, Sherry Linkon, Shirehouse, Sports Direct, WCP, Working Conditions, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Engaging the Unreachables

  Since the dust from this election settled, many have reflected on the extent of their own participation in the process. This Working-Class Perspective features Jack Metzgar expressing regret for not

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Andrew Levinson, Deindustrialization, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Presidential Election, Rust Belt, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives