Archive: Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Bucket Toilets and Casseroles: Belonging, Mutual Aid, and Working-Class Survival
This past year of the pandemic has, for many, been one of struggle and isolation. So films about single older working-class women dealing with economic and personal challenges might not seem inspirin
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Workers, Climate Change, and Useless Stereotypes
Stories about climate change often depict workers as uniformly resistant to progressive policies. They are more interested, it would seem, in protecting jobs in coal mining than in protecting the pla
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WCP: Outage Outrage: Class and the Power Grid
A deep freeze in Texas brought widespread power outages, water shortages, damage to many homes, and plenty of outrage. While the cold snap might not have been expected, the problems reflect decisions
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Not Just Viruses: What Epidemic Cinema Teaches Us about Working-Class Vulnerability
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we've looked to earlier viruses to help us make sense of what's happening. As Tom Zaniello reminds us in Working-Class Perspectives this week, film offers important
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: What the World Needs Now
Natural, human-made, and political disasters have threatened -- or taken -- many people's lives over the past year, and leadership gaps and political divides don't offer much reason to hope. In Worki
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives