WCP: Water from a Rock: Joe Biden and Working-Class Catholicism
February 2nd, 2021
The U.S. faces a number of daunting problems, including divisions that threaten American democracy, COVID, and climate change. As Joseph A. McCartin writes in this…
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WCP: Time to Deliver: How Biden Should Respond to the Insurrection
January 21st, 2021
The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has multiple roots, but one contributing factor is clear: the erosion of hope among tens of millions of people who no longer have faith in the…
WCP: Will 2021 Bring Positive Change for Working-Class People?
January 13th, 2021
As we’ve noted many times, the pandemic has hit working-class people around the world especially hard. But as Sarah Attfield reminds us in Working-Class Perspectives this week, the incredible…
WCP: Beyond Economic Populism
January 5th, 2021
Debates about working-class voters often treat them as a marketing problem, a way of thinking that reflects the commentators’ sense of superiority to people they view as deluded, foolish, stupid,…
WCP: Christmas (and Class) Behind the Scenes
December 22nd, 2020
We think of Christmas movies as feel-good reminders of the joys of the season, but as Kathy M. Newman writes in Working-Class Perspectives this week, they are also movies about work. And when we…
WCP: Rethinking Working-Class Belonging
December 11th, 2020
Belonging is a central theme and a strength of working-class culture, a source of pleasure and of collective agency. Yet it can also be divisive, emphasizing how “we” are different from “them” — a…
WCP: Toxic Class Encounters
November 30th, 2020
While more working-class students have entered colleges and universities in the last few decades, neither the entitled behavior of more privileged students nor the prejudices against working-class…
WCP: Cultural and Political Diversity in the White Working-Class
November 12th, 2020
All too often, political commentators describe working-class whites as if they were all the same — ignorant, backward, deplorable. But as Jack Metzgar writes in Working-Class Perspectives this…
WCP: Why Trump will lose Ohio
October 26th, 2020
After Donald Trump won Ohio in 2016 and Republicans swept statewide elections there in 2018, Ohio seemed to have moved firmly to the right. But as John Russo writes in Working-Class…
WCP: The “Other America”: The Poverty and Peril of Domestic Workers
October 19th, 2020
Home health care workers, nannies, cleaners, and other domestic workers earn low wages and have little job security.…
WCP: What Can Workers Expect from Amy Coney Barrett?
October 6th, 2020
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?…
WCP: The Unsettling
September 28th, 2020
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.…
WCP: Undelivered: The DeJoy Scandal and Democracy in the Balance
September 15th, 2020
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.…
WCP: Unemployed Workers of the World Unite?!?
September 10th, 2020
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.…
WCP: Why You Should Be Getting Your Labor News from Teen Vogue
September 1st, 2020
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.…
WCP: Working-Class Public Housing in the COVID Spotlight
August 24th, 2020
In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Sarah Attfield explains how low-income residents of Australian public housing towers have struggled with lockdowns and policing.…