Archive:James Catano

• WCP: Dirty Jobs, Essential Workers, and the Infrastructure Bills

  Current negotiations over the second infrastructure bill may remind a lot of people of Mike Rowe’s oddly popular series Dirty Jobs.  Which makes sense.  Watching a man stumble around inside a sewage

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: James Catano

• 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

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: James Catano

• WCP: Fishing Industry Workers Struggle to Beat Long Odds

  In recent weeks, we’ve heard increasing concerns about how the pandemic is affecting the workers who feed us, from farmers to grocery clerks. But we’ve heard very little about the fishing industry or its workers. Usually, reports on fishing focus on tons of catch, not the workers who bring it to market.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: James Catano, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives