Archive:Allison L Hurst
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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
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WCP: The Unsettling
The wildfires in the West add one more disruption to working-class lives in 2020. People have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and their loved ones.
Category: News
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WCP: Trouble in Paradise
The wildfires in California, protests in France, the refugee crisis, and disputes over federal land all have a common thread in climate change. Working-class people repeatedly bear the brunt of its effects, and the rich use their clout to buy and legislate their own protection at others’ expense. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Allison L. Hurst ruminates the class war over climate.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Working-Class Politics and The Foremen Problem
“White working-class voters” are usually treated as a single, monolithic group, but that ignores some important differences in this category. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Allison L. Hurst analyzes how foremen, who consider themselves as middle-class, are more likely to vote Republican than other workers.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: We Need a Working-Class Ranking System
College rankings such as the ones produced by U.S. News play an outsized roll in the college selection process, yet these lists mainly reward elite schools and neglect the interests of working-class families. In Working-Class Perspectives, Allison L. Hurst builds the case for an alternative model, one that weighs information like college affordability and the support given the first-generation college students.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Food Insecurity and the Costs of College
Higher education has become so inaccessible to working-class students that there are over 500 campus food pantries in the United States. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Allison L. Hurst de
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us
Much of what has been said about Trump’s support from working-class voters is either false or unproven. Even worse, flawed analyses reinforce damaging conservative narratives and undermine worker solidarity. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives post, Allison L. Hurst calls for a more inclusive understanding of the working class in America.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Fractions within the Working Class
As Allison L. Hurst writes in this week's Working-Class Perspective, discussing the working class in the U.S. as a unified block ignores the immense complexity and diversity of working people. Even
Category: Visiting Scholars