Archive: Working-Class Health

• WCP: Jobs and Medicare for All

  The idea of Medicare for All is gaining attention and support in American politics — so much that it’s now getting careful analysis of its benefits and costs. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Jack Metzgar considers the most significant cost: jobs for workers in health care and the insurance industry. A better health plan, he argues, must be accompanied by a just transition policy for workers.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Bernie Sanders, Health Care, Jack Metzgar, Job Displacement, John Russo, Medicare For All, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Health, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Should We Mourn the Loss of Industrial Jobs?

  Many elite and middle-class people dismiss former industrial workers’ attachment to the memory of dirty, dangerous factory work. But as James Partick Ferns reminds us in this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, displaced workers recognize the very real problems of industrial labor.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: James Patrick Ferns, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, Steelworkers, WCP, Working-Class Culture, Working-Class Families, Working-Class Health, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Health Class

  The United States has long struggled to expand access to high quality health care to all its people, yet the health of the poor and the working-class is also tied to social factors such as where the

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Care Act, Health Care, John Russo, Kenneth Thompson, Mortality, Sherry Linkon, Social determinants, WCP, Working-Class Health, Working-Class Perspectives