Archive: Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Black Homes Matter: The Fate of Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh

  In so many of our cities, working-class people are being pushed out of their communities. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Nick Coles discusses how gentrification is undermining the stabili

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, Community Activism, Development, Gentrification, John Russo, Nick Coles, Pittsburg, Revitalization, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Foreclosure Crisis: At the Movies

  The Big Short is a fantastic film that brilliantly depicts the greed and recklessness on Wall Street that led to the Great Recession. Yet as former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann reminds us in this

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 99 Homes, Economic Policy Institute, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Homeowners, Housing, John Russo, Marc Dann, Sherry Linkon, the Big Short, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Organizing Miracles

  What motivates people to risk their comfort and safety to confront oppression? How can organizing foster a movement that leads to major change? In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metzgar

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Church, East Germany, Jack Metzgar, Leipzig, Nonviolence, Organizing, Protest, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Estate Life: Working-Class Communities and Social Housing

  In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield writes that the public housing that many British citizens depend on faces the threat of demolition. Although some view these council estates

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Council Estates, Great Britain, John Russo, Public Housing, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Master of None Lacks Class

  Aziz Anzari's Master of None gets a lot of things right. Its attention to racism, sexism, diversity, and the immigrant-family experience make the hilarious new Netflix series feel like a breath of f

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Aziz Anzari, Class, Comedy, Diversity, Immgrants, Immigration, Inequality, Master of None, Millennials, Netflix, Precariat, Racism, Sexism, WCP, 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

• WCP: Deindustrialization, Depopulation, and the Refugee Crisis

  Although much of the discourse regarding the refugee crisis in the United States has focused on security concerns, the situation also has major economic implications. In this week's Working-Class Pe

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Deindustrialization, Depopulation, Midwest, Refugees, Rust Belt, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Youngstown

• WCP: Dressing Up In Class

  Fashion is bizarre. We increasingly find ourselves dressing up in clothes designed to resemble the uniforms workers had to wear decades ago for industrial jobs. In this week's Working-Class Perspect

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Fashion, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, Tim Strangleman, Underground, Uniforms, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Workwear

• WCP: Class at the Intersectional “Crash” Site: Scenes from Orange is the New Black

  In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sara Appel reminds us that class expresses itself uniquely in each person and is complexly interconnected with race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Class, Intersectionality, John Russo, Orange Is The New Black, Sara Appel, Sherry Linkon, Transgender, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Losing the Narrative of Their Lives

  A recent study finding increased death rates for white, working-class Americans has fueled a national discussion about the impact of economic insecurity. In today's Working-Class Perspectives post,

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Contemporary fiction, Deindustrialization, Fiction, John Russo, Literature, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Culture, Working-Class Perspectives