Author Archives: Working-Class Perspectives

Beyond the Caravan: Why We Must Protect Workers Covered by TPS

Posted on November 12, 2018

In recent weeks, President Trump has been warning of an “invasion” of a caravan of 3,000 Central Americans, mostly from Honduras, heading north towards the Mexico-U.S. border. In October, these immigrants set out on a journey of more than 2500 … Continue reading →

Posted in Class at the Intersections, Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues, Working-Class Politics | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Veterans’ Healthcare: A Workers’ Comp System That Actually Works

Posted on November 5, 2018

Most American workers who get injured on the job or develop an occupational disease soon become familiar with the inadequacies and injustices of our fifty state system of workers’ comp. Private employers fight their claims. Rehabilitation services are fragmented and … Continue reading →

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Politicizing Immigration Wears Thin in Iowa

Posted on October 29, 2018

For weeks during the summer of 2018, the case of a missing University of Iowa student occupied statewide and national attention. Mollie Tibbetts, 20, who was housesitting in Brooklyn, Iowa (population 1,391), went jogging at night on July 18 and … Continue reading →

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Red State, White Evangelicals, and a Blue Wave?

Posted on October 22, 2018

Eyes are locked on Texas. And deep in its heart are white evangelicals who could be part of a blue wave many hope will wash over that red state to carry Ted Cruz far out to sea.  In tight race … Continue reading →

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First-Gen or Working-Class?

Posted on October 8, 2018

Working-class studies scholars often complain about how some researchers use a single aspect of people’s lives – most often education — to determine their social class. Anytime we define class in one way, we oversimplify it and miss important insights … Continue reading →

Posted in Class and Education, Contributors, Issues, Sherry Linkon | Tagged , | 6 Comments

Working-Class Politics and The Foremen Problem

Posted on September 24, 2018

In a recent unpublished paper, Larry Bartels (author of Unequal Democracy) and Kathrine Cramer (author of The Politics of Resentment), reported a finding sure to surprise many who have been blaming “the white working class” for the election of Trump: … Continue reading →

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Labor’s Day, More or Less?

Posted on September 2, 2018

With this post, Working-Class Perspectives celebrates its 10th anniversary. Since 2008, we have published 447 commentaries, and we’ve had more than 950,000 page views from readers around the world. Our pieces have been reposted on dozens of other sites, from … Continue reading →

Posted in Issues, Labor and Community Activism, Wade Rathke | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments