Archive: Youngstown

• WCP: Economic Nationalism and the Half-Life of Deindustrialization

  Four decades ago a major mill in Youngstown shut its doors, setting of a massive process of deindustrialization in the Rust Belt that still stings working people. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Sherry Linkon and John Russo trace today’s politics of resentment to the economic changes that disrupted places like Youngstown 40 years ago.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Black Monday, Deindustrialization, John Russo, Politics of Resentment, Populism, Rust Belt, Sherry Linkon, Steve Bannon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives, Youngstown

• 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 Tags: Deindustrialization, Economic displacement, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Russo, Robots, Sherry Linkon, Technology, Unemployment, Universal Basic Income, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Youngstown

• 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