Archive: Working Class

• KI Fellow Amy Goldstein Discusses “Janesville: an American Story”

  One day after the release of her new book, Janesville: an American Story, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and KI Practitioner Fellow Amy Goldstein returned to campus for an intimate discussion with Dr. Sherry Linkon and members of the Georgetown community.

  Categories: Events, Practitioner Fellows Tags: Amy Goldstein, Books, Events, General Motors, Janesville, Literature, New York Times, Practitioner Fellows, Sherry Linkon, White Working Class, Working Class

• WCP: Fractions within the Working Class

  As Allison L. Hurst writes in this week's Working-Class Perspective, discussing the working class in the U.S. as a unified block ignores the immense complexity and diversity of working people. Even

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 2016 Election, Allison L Hurst, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Voters

• WCP: Memo to the Next President: Don’t Forget the Working Class

  As our nation chooses its next president, we leave behind one of the most contentious, ugly elections in recent history. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sherry Linkon makes the case that o

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: John Russo, Politics, Presidential Election, Racial Inequality, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Extraordinary Ordinary Working Class

  What does the return of the phrase "working class" in public discourse, particularly from right-wing politicians, suggest about the state of the economy, politics, and class in Great Britain? Tim St

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Great Britain, John Russo, Politics, Sherry Linkon, Theresa May, Tim Strangleman, United Kingdom, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: A Working-Class Brexit

  The world is still reverberating from last week's Brexit referendum. The leave campaign won largely because it appealed to the anxiety and frustration of British working-class voters. In this week's

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Brexit, European Union, Great Britain, John Russo, Precariat, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, United Kingdom, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Redefining the Working Class

  In this week's Working-Class Perspective post, John Russo and Sherry Linkon team up to call for an expanded understanding and updated definition of the working class. "Historians have argued that th

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

• 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: 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