Archive: Michelle M Tokarczyk

• WCP: Real Government Help for Working-Class People

  n the wake of the Great Recession, many analysists have come to praise current unemployment statistics, but unemployment numbers do not represent underemployment. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Michelle M Tokarczyk argues for the creation of a federal jobs program designed to place recent college graduates, especially graduates from working-class communities, into jobs that reflect their education.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Jobs, Michelle M Tokarczyk, Unemployment, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Hidden Anxieties of the White Working Class

  To understand white working-class voters’ support for Trump, we have to consider not just their economic anxieties and political resentments, but also their cultural fears regarding the costs of elu

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Donald Trump, John Russo, Masculinity, Michelle M Tokarczyk, Political Correctness, Presidential Election, Rust Belt, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives