Archive: Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: The “Other America”: The Poverty and Peril of Domestic Workers
Home health care workers, nannies, cleaners, and other domestic workers earn low wages and have little job security.
Category: News
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WCP: What Can Workers Expect from Amy Coney Barrett?
Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States poses a difficult question: does her faith commitment as a Roman Catholic preclude an interpretation of the law that is responsive to concerns of the working class?
Category: News
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WCP: The Unsettling
The wildfires in the West add one more disruption to working-class lives in 2020. People have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and their loved ones.
Category: News
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WCP: Undelivered: The DeJoy Scandal and Democracy in the Balance
In this turbulent moment, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy aptly symbolizes the precarious state of both our democracy and the workers on whose shoulder its future rests.
Category: News
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WCP: Unemployed Workers of the World Unite?!?
As we mark Labor Day in the US, more Americans are out of work than at any time in recent memory. But that makes this an ideal time for labor action.
Category: News
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WCP: Why You Should Be Getting Your Labor News from Teen Vogue
You might be surprised to hear that some of the best coverage of last week’s professional sports strikes protesting the latest police shooting of an unarmed Black man appeared in a teen fashion magazine.
Category: News
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WCP: Working-Class Public Housing in the COVID Spotlight
In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Sarah Attfield explains how low-income residents of Australian public housing towers have struggled with lockdowns and policing.
Category: News
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WCP: The Hidden Price of Education: Black and Working-Class in Academe
One of structural racism’s institutional bases is education, which has a long history of excluding, segregating, and discriminating against people of color, many of whom are also poor or working-class.
Category: News
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WCP: Essential Work: The 2020 WCSA Awards
At the center of all the chaos and turmoil of 2020 has been the essential worker on the front lines—from healthcare workers treating those infected with COVID-19 to service workers of all kinds who have kept us fed, supplied, and safe while putting their own safety at risk, all too often in jobs which are precarious and underpaid. Working-class life, experience, and precarity have has perhaps not been more central or important in recent memory.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: The Downwardly Mobile: How Some People Lose Class Privilege
In the U.S., the expectation of upward mobility has begun to seem like magical thinking. Few Americans move up the social class ladder, and quite a few fall a few rungs down from the status their parents achieved. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, sociologist Jessi Streib looks at some of the factors that contribute to downward mobility.
Category: Visiting Scholars