Archive: Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Healing Web of Solidarity: Lessons from a Favela

  Alongside the medical crisis of the pandemic, we've seen deepening challenges for mental health care in the US, as poor and working-class people struggle to find -- and to afford -- treatment for dep

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• WCP: Labour and the Working Class in the UK

  Last week's byelection in the UK brought a raft of losses to the Labour Party. Working-class voters used to be a rock-solid base for Labour, but no more. As Tim Strangleman explains in Working-Class

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Tim Strangleman

• WCP: Amazon and the Southern Key

  In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Wade Rathke argues that while we shouldn't be surprised that the recent effort to unionize Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama failed, the campaign reminds us

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• WCP: English Football and Working-Class Culture

  The recent announcement that some of the top football clubs in Europe were going to form a separate elite league drew immediate protests from fans. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Sarah Attf

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Sarah Attfield

• WCP: Is Neoliberalism Dead? Class Struggle and a Wealth Tax

  The first months of President Joe Biden's term offer hope that we may soon see the end of neoliberalism. Instead of cutting taxes for the rich in the hope that wealth will  somehow "trickle down" to

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

• WCP: Sea Shanties and the Pleasure of Work

  Even if you're not a TikTok user, you might have heard about "Shantytok," the viral series of short videos featuring, of all things, sea shanties. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Kathy M. Ne

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

• WCP: Why Burnley Voted for Brexit – and Why It Matters

  Brexit is often presented as reflecting the politics and direction of the United Kingdom as a whole, but its roots lie in local histories and tensions. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Mike M

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Mike Makin-Waite.

• WCP: Bringing Ourselves to Say “Working-Class”

  President Joe Biden recently did the most pro-working-class thing any U.S. president has done in decades: he endorsed the right of workers to organize. Yet, as Christopher R. Martin points out in thi

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Christopher R. Martin

• WCP: Southern Black Women Are Key to Alabama Amazon Union Drive

  Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama are voting this month on whether to form a union. As Lane Windham writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives, African-American women are play

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• WCP: The Myth of the Conservative Working Class

  For years, reports have misidentified supporters of American conservatism as "working class." The error has a grain of truth: economic displacement generated plenty of white working-class anger and r

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: John Russo