Archive: Austerity

• WCP: Grifting the Working Class

  Since the 2016 election, pundits have pondered how a man who began his campaign by gliding down an escalator in a gaudy Manhattan skyscraper festooned with his name managed to ride working-class resentment and anxiety to the presidency. How did a billionaire steal blue-collar Democratic voters right out from under Hillary Clinton’s upturned nose in broad daylight?

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Austerity, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, Consumer Protection, Corporate Judiciary, Donald Trump, Marc Dann, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?

  A tired and familiar pattern has emerged in several countries: working-class voters rally behind nationalist, often populist politicians who promise relief but deliver policies that bring more econo

  Categories: Labor Studies, Visiting Scholars Tags: Austerity, Electoral Politics, Great Britain, John Russo, Labour, Margaret Thatcher, Populism, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, Tories, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Voters

• WCP: I, Daniel Blake and The Power of Working-Class Story Telling

  Great films about the working class have the capacity to inspire political action as well as empathy. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield explains why I, Daniel Blake (2016) is

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Austerity, Films, Great Britain, I Daniel Blake, John Russo, Movies, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, United Kingdom, WCP, Welfare, Working-Class Perspectives