Archive: Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Why Dems Should Act Now on Pro-Consumer Legislation
Working-class people are exploited not only in the workplace but also as consumers, and they get little in the way of government protection either way. As Marc Dann and Leo Jennings III outline in Wo
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP | Why There’s More Labor Media Coverage
From Starbucks baristas, to Amazon warehouse workers, John Deere strikers, and New York Times tech staff, workers and unions have been getting a lot of media attention lately. In this week's Working
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP | Christian Nationalism Is a Class Matter
As Christian nationalism has gained support and attention over the last few years, many commentaries have emphasized its racist dimensions. Given familiar images of the January 6 insurrection, in whi
Categories: In the News, News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Working-Class Scholars and Activists Bringing Change
In recent years, class has gained fresh attention as a system that creates and reinforces inequality. As Sarah Attfield writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives, this is due in part to the ef
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP | Building Back Better?
For the first time in decades, American workers seem to be gaining power. As Joseph A. McCartin writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives, the "Great Resignation," "Striketober," and more pro
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Will the Democrats Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Earlier this year, 25 GOP governors turned down billions of dollars in federally funded supplemental unemployment benefits authorized by the American Rescue Act. As a result, more than 4 million unem
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Dirty Jobs, Essential Workers, and the Infrastructure Bills
Current negotiations over the second infrastructure bill may remind a lot of people of Mike Rowe’s oddly popular series Dirty Jobs. Which makes sense. Watching a man stumble around inside a sewage
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: How Government Statistics Define the Stories of the Working Class
One of my favorite media criticism works is British journalist and media professor Brian Winston’s “On Counting the Wrong Things.” He argues that the categories we use to count can themselves lead to
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Blue-Collar Babies: Why America’s Working Class Needs Affordable Child Care
The recent Netflix series Maid, based on Stephanie Land's memoir, highlights the challenges that poor and working-class mothers face in juggling low-wage jobs, social services, and child care. As Lan
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Class and Water: Climate-Charged Displacement
Climate change threatens all of us, but it is already having -- and will continue to have -- especially powerful effects on working-class people and communities. In Working-Class Perspectives this we
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives