Archive: Sherry Linkon

• WCP: The Work Lives of Uber Drivers Are Worse Than You Think

  Uber promises freedom and flexibility to drivers but instead delivers risk, exploitation, and low wages that compel drivers to work long and inconvenient hours. That is what Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen discovered by conducting a groundbreaking series of interviews with 40 Uber drivers in the DC area, highlighted in this week’s Working-Class Perspective.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Declan Cullen, Gig Economy, John Russo, Kafui Attoh, Katie Wells, Precarity, Sharing economy, Sherry Linkon, Technology, Uber, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity

  Pundits use ‘working class’ as a shorthand for white blue-collar men, but the American worker today is just as likely to be a woman of color in the service or healthcare industry. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Lane Windham makes the case for promoting women’s leadership in the labor movement and introduces an ambitious project seeking to do just that.

  Categories: Visiting Scholars, Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: CIWO, Economic Justice, Feminism, Georgetown, John Russo, KI, Lane Windham, Rutgers, Scheduling, Sherry Linkon, WCP, WILL Empower, Women, Women Innovating Labor Leadership, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Fear of Hygge and Working-Class Social Capital

  The Danish concept of hygge associated with coziness, peace of mind, and communality has received much attention and scrutiny from commentators in the United States. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metzgar argues that hygge is quintessentially a working-class ethic that eludes Americans due to an increasingly rigid professional culture and the absence of robust social welfare.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Denmark, Hygge, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, United States, WCP, Welfare, Working-Class Culture, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us

  Much of what has been said about Trump’s support from working-class voters is either false or unproven. Even worse, flawed analyses reinforce damaging conservative narratives and undermine worker solidarity. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives post, Allison L. Hurst calls for a more inclusive understanding of the working class in America.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Allison L Hurst, Class, Donald Trump, Electoral Politics, John Russo, Presidential Election, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Profiting from the Working Class: How the Opioid Epidemic Echoes the Mortgage Crisis

  In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Marc Dann and Leo Jennings III draw frightening parallels between the opioid epidemic and the subprime mortgage crisis. They call on the Department of Justice to do what it failed to do in 2009: prosecute Wall Street executives whose greed devastate working-class Americans.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Big Pharma, Department of Justice, Financial Crisis, John Russo, Leo Jennings III, Marc Dann, Mortgage Crisis, Opioid Crisis, Sherry Linkon, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Religious Liberty (Not) For All

  Religious freedom claims have significant deference in the U.S. legal system, and they have increasingly come into conflict with the rights of workers. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Ken Estey warns that a failure to balance religious liberty with public welfare undermines the common good.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Catholic social teaching, Hobby Lobby, John Russo, Ken Estey, Religious Freedom, Religious liberty, Sherry Linkon, Supreme Court, Trinity Lutheran Church, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Is Class Really Forgotten? Working-Class Studies Association 2017 Awards

  While commentators are right to call for an increased focus on class, the notion that class as a category of analysis has been neglected by academics is contradicted by tremendous recent scholarship in the working-class studies field. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Tim Strangleman highlights some of the best books and articles awarded by the Working-Class Studies Association this spring.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Angela Stuesse, David LaBounty, Diana Garvin, Gabriel Thompson, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, WCP, WCSA, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies Association

• WCP: Springsteen’s Born to Run: Memoir as “Repair”

  Bruce Springsteen has long been dubbed as America's working-class troubadour. In this weeks' Working-Class Perspective, Pamela Fox explores the insights of Springsteen's extraordinary memoir on blue

  Categories: Labor Studies, Visiting Scholars Tags: Blue Collar, Bruce Springsteen, John Russo, Music, Pamela Fox, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?

  A tired and familiar pattern has emerged in several countries: working-class voters rally behind nationalist, often populist politicians who promise relief but deliver policies that bring more econo

  Categories: Labor Studies, Visiting Scholars Tags: Austerity, Electoral Politics, Great Britain, John Russo, Labour, Margaret Thatcher, Populism, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, Tories, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Voters

• WCP: Predatory Lenders Making American Nightmares From American Dreams

  As if losing their homes during the foreclosure crisis was not cruel enough, working-class families are now being lured by predatory lenders into deceptive rent-to-own contracts. As Wade Rathke expl

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, Akron, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosures, Great Recession, John Russo, Philadelphia, Rent-to-Own Contracts, Sherry Linkon, Wade Rathke, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives