Archive: Visiting Scholars

• WCP: Trumped Up Charges Against Evangelicals

  Despite the attention received by white working-class voters this election cycle, Evangelicals accounted for nearly half of Donald Trump's support. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Ken Este

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Memo to the Next President: Don’t Forget the Working Class

  As our nation chooses its next president, we leave behind one of the most contentious, ugly elections in recent history. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sherry Linkon makes the case that o

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: John Russo, Politics, Presidential Election, Racial Inequality, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: It Is Rigged … and We Must Revolt

  One of the most frequently heard claims in this election cycle is that the political system in the United States — and more recently the Presidential election itself — is rigged against ordinary Ame

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Donald Trump, Guy Standing, John Russo, Presidential Election, Privatization, Rigged Economy, Sherry Linkon, Tax Policy, Trade Policy, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Extraordinary Ordinary Working Class

  What does the return of the phrase "working class" in public discourse, particularly from right-wing politicians, suggest about the state of the economy, politics, and class in Great Britain? Tim St

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Great Britain, John Russo, Politics, Sherry Linkon, Theresa May, Tim Strangleman, United Kingdom, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Shakespeare and Working-Class Students: The Value of Irrelevance

  Many first-generation students attend college to get out of the "working class" both economically and culturally. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Tim Francisco warns that prioritizing job

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Class, Higher education, Job readiness, John Russo, Mobility, Sherry Linkon, students, Teaching, Tim Francisco, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Fighting the Money Mongers

  As we learned from the Wells Fargo scandal, banks have the capacity to rob poor and working-class people. Consumers have little recourse when this occurs because they cannot afford the legal costs o

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Visiting Scholars Tags: Arbitration, Banking, Bargaining for the Common Good, Big Banks, Finance, John Russo, Marc Dann, Ohio, Payday lending, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Wells Fargo, Working-Class Perspectives

• Kalmanovitz Initiative Hosts Discussion on Women, Work, and Globalization

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative was honored to host a panel discussion among four of Georgetown’s most esteemed faculty members about the experiences of working women whose lives are impacted by globalization. After a brief introduction by KI’s Executive Director Dr. Joseph A. McCartin, each scholar presented on their research and shared stories from their respective field work.

  Categories: Events, Uncategorized, Visiting Scholars Tags: Cocoa Farmers, Denise Brennan, Events, Fida Adely, Global Women, Global Work, Globalization, Gwendolyn Mikell, Joseph A. McCartin, Migration, Sex Work, Unemployment, You-Me Park

• WCP: Who is Shameless This Election Season? One TV Show’s Challenging Depiction of the Working Poor

  This election season has brought a renewed focus on the white working class that has manifested in books that engage this typically neglected demographic. This week, Georgetown professor Pamela Fox

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: John Russo, Pamela Fox, Shameless, Sherry Linkon, Stereotypes, WCP, White Working Class, Working Poor, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: White Trash, Hillbillies, and Middle-Class Stereotypes

  Why is it that every U.S. presidential election brings a renewed focus on the white working class? Two new books that shed light on this otherwise neglected demographic - White Trash: The 400-Year U

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Hillbilly Elegy, Jack Metzgar, JD Vance, John Russo, Nancy Isenberg, Poverty, Sherry Linkon, Stereotypes, WCP, White Trash, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Solidarity, Not Division: Understanding London’s East End

  There is a troubling stereotype that has gained hold on either side of the Atlantic that portrays working-class people as racist and resentful. Many commentators have incorrectly attributed the woes

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: East End, Gentrification, Great Britain, Immigration, John Russo, London, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives