Archive: Working-Class Perspectives
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WCP: More than Cash: What It Really Takes to Address Poverty
To address poverty in the global south we must do more than build schools or put cash in people's pockets. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Dominique Hess argues that real change begins wit
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Universal Basic Income: A “Social Vaccine” for Technological Displacement?
Take it from someone who witnessed the severe impact of deindustrialization on working-class Americans: lofty rhetoric and grand promises cannot disguise the massive economic displacement that will
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: The Working Class at the Oscars
Portrayals of working-class people in popular culture often depend on stereotypes, yet this year's Oscar-nominated films are a pleasant exception. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metz
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Classing the Resistance
The resistance movement of 2017 has inspired mass mobilization across the country, but it has not yet emphasized social class or economic justice. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sherry Li
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
Most Americans envision the rural areas where Trump drew most of his support as predominantly white and working class. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Kalmanovitz Initiative research analy
Category: Visiting Scholars
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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