Archive: Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Defending the Working Class from Financial Abuse

  Recent regulations help consumers hire lawyers, defend against lawsuits, and win favorable decisions in court against big businesses and corporations. In Working-Class Perspectives, attorney Marc Da

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Big Banks, Consumer Protection, Dodd-Frank, Financial Crisis, John Russo, Marc Dann, Regulation, Sherry Linkon, WCP, 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: The Limits to Entrepreneurship: Why Innovation Won’t Solve Poverty

  One of the most frequently recited myths about poverty is that it can be solved through innovation and entrepreneurship. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Mark Popovich unravels that claim b

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Business, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, John Russo, Mark Popovich, Poverty, Sherry Linkon, WCP, 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

• WCP: 2016 WCSA Awards: The Best of Working-Class Studies

  On June 9-11 at the How Class Works conference hosted at SUNY Stony Brook, the Working-Class Studies Association will recognize the best new work in the field. In this week's Working-Class Perspecti

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Bottom Dog Press, Christie Launius, Douglas Yarrow, John Russo, Literature, Mike Yarrow, Poetry, Ruth Yarrow, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies, Working-Class Studies Association

• WCP: Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?

  Recent changes in higher education have had a profound impact on academics who come from working-class backgrounds. In this week's Working-Class Perspectives post, Sherry Linkon contemplates the cla

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Academia, Higher education, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Studies

• WCP: Teaching Work and Learning from Working-Class Students

  We have a lot to learn from working-class students, who face unique challenges in higher education. As Tim Strangleman points out in this week's Working-Class Perspectives post, students who are inv

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Higher education, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Students, Working-Class Studies

• WCP: Justice for Hillsborough: Working-Class Solidarity Prevails

  When 96 football fans in Great Britain were unlawfully killed in a 1989 disaster, police and media covered up the negligence of senior police officers and laid the blame on working-class supporters.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 96, Andy Clark, Hillsborough, John Russo, Liverpool, Margaret Thatcher, Police, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Parts and Wholes: Unpacking Reports of White Working-Class Death Rates

  A study finding increased mortality for the white working-class drew a lot of attention last fall. Yet as Jack Metzgar demonstrates in this week's Working-Class Perspectives post, the focus on race

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Death rates, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Life expectancy, Mortality, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Art for whose Sake? Working-Class Life in Visual Art

  --- What does it mean that most museums offer few images of working-class life? The ones that do tend to show workers from the outside through middle-class perspectives. In this week's Working-Clas

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Art, Jean-François Millet, John Russo, Paintings, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, Tom Roberts, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives