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MIA: Workers, Working, and Workplaces
“Hacks is like most stories about creative work: It avoids really showing any.” B.D. McClay, New York Times Magazine B.D. McClay’s epigram works like any good hook: it grabs your interest. So here is another: “In order to entertain audiences, … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues, Work
Tagged Dirty Jobs, Films about work, Images of work
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Biden and Social Wages
If Biden’s American Family Plan becomes law as he proposed it, my grand-niece Harri will finally have a “modest yet adequate” standard of living based on a new commitment from the federal government to provide social wages. Harri is a … Continue reading
Infrastructure “Deal”? No Deal for Workers and the Climate
The long-awaited infrastructure bill is slowly coming into focus. Last Thursday, President Joe Biden stood alongside of Republicans and Democrats to announce that “We have a deal” — $579 billion in new federal spending for roads, broadband, electric utilities, and … Continue reading
America’s Cross-Class Romance with Mare of Easttown
In the waning days of the great pandemic of 2020-2021, something surprising happened: the nation fell in love with Mare of Easttown, a depressing television series about a burned out town, an unsolved murder, and, as the Saturday Night Live … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Kathy M. Newman
Tagged Black Lives Matter, Mare of Easttown, policing
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Announcing the 2021 Working-Class Studies Association Awards
It is my honor and pleasure to share the winners of the Working-Class Studies Association’s annual awards. The books, articles, essays, stories, and media nominated for our awards this year show a great diversity. Looking at this list of award-winning … Continue reading
A Working-Class Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights have always been aspirational. When Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, it was hardly self-evident that “all men were created equal.” It took almost a century before the 14th Amendment promised … Continue reading
The Healing Web of Solidarity: Lessons from a Favela
“A spider without their web is like an Indian without land or a community without solidarity.” — Tremembé Indian saying, Brazil As most of us sat at home during the past year, seeking safety from the pandemic and isolated from … Continue reading
Posted in Class and Health, Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues
Tagged mental health care, solidarity care, working-class health
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Labour and the Working Class in the UK
After decades of consistently supporting the Labour Party, voters in Hartlepool recently elected their first Tory MP, in a byelection caused by the previous MP standing down as a result of a scandal. Hartlepool sits on the North-east coast of … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman, Working-Class Politics
Tagged Brexit, Labour Party, UK elections, working-class voters
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Amazon and the Southern Key
Though expected, the union defeat at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center was a gut punch to the labor movement not only in the United States, but globally. Amazon workers in other countries had expressed solidarity with Bessemer through direct action, … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Labor and Community Activism, Wade Rathke
Tagged Amazon, labor movement, NLRB, Southern unions
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English Football and Working-Class Culture
On the afternoon of Saturday, September 23rd, 1933, Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) played Liverpool in a match at Tottenham’s home ground, White Hart Lane, in North London. About a mile away, at the same time, my grandmother went into labour with … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Sarah Attfield, Working-Class Culture
Tagged Class and sports, European Super League, football, Tottenham Hotspur
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