Archive: Politics of Resentment

• WCP: Economic Nationalism and the Half-Life of Deindustrialization

  Four decades ago a major mill in Youngstown shut its doors, setting of a massive process of deindustrialization in the Rust Belt that still stings working people. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Sherry Linkon and John Russo trace today’s politics of resentment to the economic changes that disrupted places like Youngstown 40 years ago.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Black Monday, Deindustrialization, John Russo, Politics of Resentment, Populism, Rust Belt, Sherry Linkon, Steve Bannon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives, Youngstown