Archive: Working-Class Perspectives
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Working Class Studies| Meeting Labor’s Moment by Lane Windham
The Kalmanovitz Initiative's Associate Director Lane Windham for Working Class Studies discusses the needed pivot away from neoliberalism and new laws, structures and approaches necessary to seize th
Category: In the News
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WCP: Water from a Rock: Joe Biden and Working-Class Catholicism
The U.S. faces a number of daunting problems, including divisions that threaten American democracy, COVID, and climate change. As Joseph A. McCartin writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives,
Category: News
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WCP: Time to Deliver: How Biden Should Respond to the Insurrection
The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has multiple roots, but one contributing factor is clear: the erosion of hope among tens of millions of people who no longer have faith in the Americ
Category: News
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WCP: Will 2021 Bring Positive Change for Working-Class People?
As we've noted many times, the pandemic has hit working-class people around the world especially hard. But as Sarah Attfield reminds us in Working-Class Perspectives this week, the incredible hardshi
Category: News
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WCP: Beyond Economic Populism
Debates about working-class voters often treat them as a marketing problem, a way of thinking that reflects the commentators’ sense of superiority to people they view as deluded, foolish, stupid, or
Category: News
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WCP: Christmas (and Class) Behind the Scenes
We think of Christmas movies as feel-good reminders of the joys of the season, but as Kathy M. Newman writes in Working-Class Perspectives this week, they are also movies about work. And when we look
Category: News
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WCP: Rethinking Working-Class Belonging
Belonging is a central theme and a strength of working-class culture, a source of pleasure and of collective agency. Yet it can also be divisive, emphasizing how "we" are different from "them" -- a w
Category: News
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WCP: Toxic Class Encounters
While more working-class students have entered colleges and universities in the last few decades, neither the entitled behavior of more privileged students nor the prejudices against working-class st
Category: News
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WCP: Cultural and Political Diversity in the White Working-Class
All too often, political commentators describe working-class whites as if they were all the same -- ignorant, backward, deplorable. But as Jack Metzgar writes in Working-Class Perspectives this week,
Category: News
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WCP: Why Trump will lose Ohio
After Donald Trump won Ohio in 2016 and Republicans swept statewide elections there in 2018, Ohio seemed to have moved firmly to the right. But as John Russo writes in Working-Class Perspectives this
Category: News