Real Help for Real Journalists
The Center for Working-Class Studies has worked with journalists all around the world on stories about culture, economics, politics, and education. Along with offering expert commentary, we help journalists make contact with working-class people in the Youngstown area. In 2008, for example, we helped journalists from the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Nightly Business Report, and news services from Holland, Asia, and France talk with the right people, including focus groups of industrial and service workers.
We have contacts with real people who are facing real issues — current and former industrial workers, people who have lost jobs because of offshoring, service workers in health care, retail, and other areas, local union leaders, community organizers, and families that are struggling to get by in today’s economy.
For stories about area workers, visit our Worker Portraits website.
CWCS in the News
Here’s just a small sample of some of our recent media appearances:
American Public Media’s Marketplace
I’m writing on boredom at work. Can you point me to any studies/articles or people who want to talk about it?
I wish you had a Search button. I’d like to read all of your posts that talk about race, including those about the white working class, the black working class, the Latino working class, etc and coalition-building across racial/ethnic lines (or the lack thereof).
I am Trying to find any articles and information on the percentages of Blue Collar Workers/working class individuals in the american economy. can you help?
Excellent daily source in addition to Working Class Studies is Professor David Ruccio, Ph.D. Notre Dame who blogs at also excellent Real World Economic Review – Free subscription and via Ruccio I receive daily “occasional” notes -superb data – charts – graphs narrative. http://www.paecon.net/ One can find Ruccio and others’ writings there. Solidarity Rita Addessa