Archive: Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Multiracial Working Class

  That the working class includes people of all races seems obvious to those who study class. But too often, and especially in discussions about voting patterns, when people talk about "the working cla

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Some Dreamers of the Rusty Dream

  This year has brought a couple of high-end television series focused on working-class communities. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Kathy M. Newman looks at the latest entry, Showtime's Ameri

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Kathy M. Newman

• WCP: The Unanswered Question about the Future of US Labor Unions

  On Labor Day, Americans celebrate workers, including the accomplishments of labor unions. What might the future bring for American unions? Will new leadership at the AFL-CIO bring new energy to organ

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Wade Rathke

• WCP: Fighting Poverty with Classism

  Reform movements in the US have a long history of trying to address poverty by teaching, manipulating, and sometimes forcing working-class people to behave more like the middle class. In Working-Clas

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Sherry Linkon

• WCP: The Downward Path We’ve Trod: Reflections on an Ominous Anniversary

  This week marks the 40th anniversary of an illegal strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) that was decisively broken by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.  In this week

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Workers, Working and Workplaces

  Films about work shape our attitudes toward labor and laboring, often by inviting us to identify with individual characters. But what happens when film presents a more direct experience of what worke

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: James V. Catano

• WCP: Biden and Social Wages

  Far too many Americans work full-time and still struggle to get by. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Jack Metzgar argues that several parts of President Biden's American Family Plan can chang

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Jack Metzgar

• WCP: Infrastructure “Deal”? No Deal for Workers and the Climate

  Last week, President Joe Biden announced that "We have a deal" on an infrastructure bill. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Ken Estey argues that some groups got what they wanted in that deal,

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Ken Estey

• WCP: America’s Cross-Class Romance with Mare of Easttown

  In this week's Working-Class Perspectives, Kathy M. Newman ponders why so many Americans fell in love with Mare of Easttown, a depressing television series about a burned out town, an unsolved murder

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Kathy M. Newman

• WCP: A Working-Class Bill of Rights

  A Working-Class Bill of Rights: The principles of equality, opportunity, and justice that are so often invoked by American leaders have always been more about aspirations than reality. What would it

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tags: Leo Jennings III, Marc Dann