Archive: John Russo

• WCP: Now They Get It: Health, Class, and Economic Restructuring

  Recent studies showing a rise in death rates for the white, middle-aged individuals suggest a connection between economic insecurity and health. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, John Russo t

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Deindustrialization, Economic Insecurity, Health, John Russo, Mental Health, Middle Class, OSHA, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Losing More than a Paycheck: Race and Class Conflict in Two New Plays

  In the United States, we perceive deindustrialization to be behind us, but the recent closing of the Carrier plant in Indiana reminds us that industrialization is a continuing phenomenon. In this we

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Economic Inequality, Inequality, John Russo, Race, Reading, Sherry Linkon, Skeleton Crew, Sweat, Theater, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: A Date in a Diary

  The labor movement depends on our collective strength and solidarity, but it is built on the backs of giants willing to stand up for these principles. Geoff Revell, a long-time labor leader from Lon

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Geoff Revell, John Russo, Labor Leaders, London, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Black Homes Matter: The Fate of Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh

  In so many of our cities, working-class people are being pushed out of their communities. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Nick Coles discusses how gentrification is undermining the stabili

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, Community Activism, Development, Gentrification, John Russo, Nick Coles, Pittsburg, Revitalization, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Foreclosure Crisis: At the Movies

  The Big Short is a fantastic film that brilliantly depicts the greed and recklessness on Wall Street that led to the Great Recession. Yet as former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann reminds us in this

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 99 Homes, Economic Policy Institute, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Homeowners, Housing, John Russo, Marc Dann, Sherry Linkon, the Big Short, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Estate Life: Working-Class Communities and Social Housing

  In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield writes that the public housing that many British citizens depend on faces the threat of demolition. Although some view these council estates

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Council Estates, Great Britain, John Russo, Public Housing, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 8, 2016)

  Were you too busy catching up on work to keep up with happenings in the labor world? Fret not, we've gathered the best stories for you here. Don't miss the two gems at the end. Party like it's 1

  Category: In the News Tags: Friedrichs, Harold Meyerson, John Russo, Killer Mike, NLRB, Overtime, Pope Francis, Richard Trumka, UFCW, Wall Street, Working Families Party

• WCP: Trump, Sanders, and the Precariat

  Stagnant wages and the lack of quality jobs have led recent college graduates and middle-class workers to resent Wall Street, corporate leaders, and politicians for destroying their jobs and communi

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, John Russo, Middle Class, Politics, Precariat, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Dressing Up In Class

  Fashion is bizarre. We increasingly find ourselves dressing up in clothes designed to resemble the uniforms workers had to wear decades ago for industrial jobs. In this week's Working-Class Perspect

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Fashion, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, Underground, Uniforms, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Workwear

• WCP: Class at the Intersectional “Crash” Site: Scenes from Orange is the New Black

  In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sara Appel reminds us that class expresses itself uniquely in each person and is complexly interconnected with race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Class, Intersectionality, John Russo, Orange Is The New Black, Sara Appel, Sherry Linkon, Transgender, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives