Archive:Visiting Scholars
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WCP: The Future of Working-Class Studies
With nearly a decade and a half since the last publication of a working-class academic collection, it is time for an update on the field. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Tim Strangleman, Michele Fazio, and Christie Launius discuss the Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies, their upcoming collection of working class academia, specifically edited to showcase the history of working-class activism, the broad diversity within working-class studies, and potential paths forward given the challenges facing the current generation of working-class activists and academics.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: The Royal Family and Their Working-Class Fans
Americans and Britons alike often enjoy reveling in the pomp and fanfare of the British Royal Family, despite the Royal Family’s distance from working-class citizens. In Working-Class Perspectives, Sarah Attfield argues that instead of glamorizing the royals, we ought to be paying more attention to the labor and struggles of the working-class.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Katie Wells Joins KI to Research Work Lives of Uber Drivers
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Katie Wells, who is beginning a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor the Working Poor. Katie has been conducting groundbreaking researc
Categories: People, Practitioner Fellows, Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Class, Politics, and the Return of Roseanne
The reboot of 1990s sitcom Roseanne brought with it a staggering number of viewers, indicating a strong demand for working-class representation in television and media. In Working-Class Perspectives, Kathy Newman highlights the need for shows like Roseanne while critiquing the disconnect between the people the show is meant to portray and the public actions of its lead actress, Roseanne Barr.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Becky and the Grind
Working one’s way out of poverty, once an attainable ambition for the working-class, has now become a practical impossibility. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Jack Metzgar details the story of Becky, a working-class single mother who struggled to do all she could just to not fall deeper into poverty, and the complex social dynamics of a family trying to support her.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: The Home Maintenance of Working-Class Identity After Deindustrialization
Children of working-class families are often encouraged to both stay true to their familial roots while simultaneously pursuing white collar careers. In Working-Class Perspectives, George Karl Ackers
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Going Public with Working-Class Studies
Discussions on the working-class in media and economics often neglect the depth and nuances of the working-class many academics have become familiar with. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Sherry Linkon addresses the need for working-class studies to be more integrated with lay understandings of the working-class.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Scabby the Rat Down Under
In Australia, as in the U.S., increasing restrictions on unions have forced the labor movement to come up with new and creative methods of communication. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Ruth Barton explores the roll of large inflatable animals in Australian labor protests, and how activists have struggled to keep them inflated.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Know Your Place: A New Generation of Working-Class Voices
The stories from younger generations of the working-class are becoming increasingly distinct from previous generations. In Working-Class Perspectives, Tim Strangleman reviews Know Your Place, a collection of reflections from young working-class writers, and compares the reflections in the book with his own working-class experiences.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Billy Graham and the Evangelical Origins of Organized Labor
Evangelicals and labor unions find themselves on opposite sides of the U.S. political spectrum, but it wasn’t always that way. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Ken Estey reflects on Billy Graham’s outreach to working-class people and his understanding that the labor movement had roots in 18th century religious revivals.
Category: Visiting Scholars