Category Archives: Joseph A. McCartin

Labor Spring 2023: Making Campuses Platforms for Labor Renewal

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Working-Class Perspectives

Everywhere you look this spring, you’ll find evidence that campuses are becoming sites of labor organizing and struggle.  In recent months, faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago staged recently a successful week-long strike, adjunct faculty at the New … Continue reading →

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Democracy Is on the Ballot

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Working-Class Perspectives

“Democracy is on the ballot” must be the most ubiquitous phrase in political speechmaking and commentary during this election season.  One can scarcely go a day without hearing it or reading it multiple times.  It is a phrase repeatedly invoked … Continue reading →

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Envisioning a 21st-Century Worker-Centered Social Compact

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Working-Class Perspectives

On June 2-3, 2022, my colleagues at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor will host the next installment in a series of convenings, webinars, and discussions we inaugurated in April 2021, inviting a wide range of … Continue reading →

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Building Back Better?

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Working-Class Perspectives

As we await U.S. Senate action on President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, it is worth reflecting on what the past few tumultuous months have meant for U.S. workers.  Much has happened in the short time since the summer drew … Continue reading →

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The Downward Path We’ve Trod: Reflections on an Ominous Anniversary

Posted on August 2, 2021 by Working-Class Perspectives

This week marks the 40th anniversary of an illegal strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) that was decisively broken by President Ronald Reagan.  That strike began on August 3, 1981, when more than 12,000 air traffic controllers … Continue reading →

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Water from a Rock: Joe Biden and Working-Class Catholicism

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Working-Class Perspectives

Much hangs in the balance in these difficult days.  The survival of our fragile, still relatively young multiracial democracy is menaced by a tsunami of disinformation and increasingly aggressive white supremacists who are abetted by allies in media and politics.  … Continue reading →

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