Archive: Visiting Scholars

• WCP: Redefining the Working Class

  In this week's Working-Class Perspective post, John Russo and Sherry Linkon team up to call for an expanded understanding and updated definition of the working class. "Historians have argued that th

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

• WCP: Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong

  Each election season brings a stream of punditry about the white working class. As Jack Metzgar observes in this week's Working-Class Perspective, commentators try to explain their voting patterns b

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Connie Schultz, Donald Trump, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Sarah Palin, Sherry Linkon, Stereotypes, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Global Working Class in Art House Cinema

  Have you already finished House of Cards, Season Four? Want to learn about working-class culture around the globe but can't travel? In today's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield recommends ei

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Belgium, Cinema, Films, John Russo, Movies, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, Two Days One Night, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Now They Get It: Health, Class, and Economic Restructuring

  Recent studies showing a rise in death rates for the white, middle-aged individuals suggest a connection between economic insecurity and health. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, John Russo t

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Deindustrialization, Economic Insecurity, Health, John Russo, Mental Health, Middle Class, OSHA, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Losing More than a Paycheck: Race and Class Conflict in Two New Plays

  In the United States, we perceive deindustrialization to be behind us, but the recent closing of the Carrier plant in Indiana reminds us that industrialization is a continuing phenomenon. In this we

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Economic Inequality, Inequality, John Russo, Race, Reading, Sherry Linkon, Skeleton Crew, Sweat, Theater, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: A Date in a Diary

  The labor movement depends on our collective strength and solidarity, but it is built on the backs of giants willing to stand up for these principles. Geoff Revell, a long-time labor leader from Lon

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Geoff Revell, John Russo, Labor Leaders, London, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Black Homes Matter: The Fate of Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh

  In so many of our cities, working-class people are being pushed out of their communities. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Nick Coles discusses how gentrification is undermining the stabili

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, Community Activism, Development, Gentrification, John Russo, Nick Coles, Pittsburg, Revitalization, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Foreclosure Crisis: At the Movies

  The Big Short is a fantastic film that brilliantly depicts the greed and recklessness on Wall Street that led to the Great Recession. Yet as former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann reminds us in this

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 99 Homes, Economic Policy Institute, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Homeowners, Housing, John Russo, Marc Dann, Sherry Linkon, the Big Short, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Organizing Miracles

  What motivates people to risk their comfort and safety to confront oppression? How can organizing foster a movement that leads to major change? In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metzgar

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Church, East Germany, Jack Metzgar, Leipzig, Nonviolence, Organizing, Protest, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Estate Life: Working-Class Communities and Social Housing

  In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield writes that the public housing that many British citizens depend on faces the threat of demolition. Although some view these council estates

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Council Estates, Great Britain, John Russo, Public Housing, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives