Archive: History

• WCP: Relocating the Dream: Working-Class History as History and Spectacle

  As affordable urban housing becomes increasingly inaccessible for working-class families, working-class housing can be portrayed as a thing of the past. In Working-Class Perspectives, David Nettleingham investigates the case of the Robin Hood Gardens to illustrate how placing once iconic working-class housing in museums relegates the ideal of affordable housing to the past, rather than a goal for the future.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, David Nettleingham, History, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Billy Graham and the Evangelical Origins of Organized Labor

  Evangelicals and labor unions find themselves on opposite sides of the U.S. political spectrum, but it wasn’t always that way. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Ken Estey reflects on Billy Graham’s outreach to working-class people and his understanding that the labor movement had roots in 18th century religious revivals.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: American Evangelicals, Billy Graham, Evangelicals, History, John Russo, Ken Estey, Politics, Religion, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives