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The State of the Working Class
Listen to Working-Class Perspective editor Sherry Linkon's recent interview about Working-Class Studies on KERA's Think with Krys Boyd.Working-Class Studies on Moyers & Company
Why Springsteen Voters Have Fled the Democratic Party
Hillary Clinton Needs to Declare the Trade War Lost
What Trump's Youngstown Problem Says About Campaign 2016
No Passes for Stereotyping -- Of Any Kind
Beyond Working-Class Stereotypes
The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Donald Trump Is Just a Symptom
How Clinton and Kaine Can Make Youngstown a Call for Unity
Why Trump Is in Youngstown
What We Can Learn from Melania Trump's, Um, Flattery of Michelle Obama
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Category Archives: Issues
Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie
When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the kind of conservative, populist politics that led Drew Pendergrass … Continue reading
The Dual Economy
In his new book The Vanishing Middle Class, MIT economist Peter Temin provides a short and accessible take on this country’s deeply unequal economy, which he argues now represents two different Americas. The first is comprised of the country’s elite … Continue reading
The Work Lives of Uber Drivers: Worse Than You Think
To be an Uber driver is to work when you want. Or so Uber likes to say in recruitment materials, advertisements, and sponsored research papers: “Be your own boss.” “Earn money on your schedule.” “With Uber, you’re in charge.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues, Work
Tagged gig economy, Uber, working conditions
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Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity
America rediscovered its working class during the 2016 election, and many Democrats and progressives now call for fresh policies to address the nation’s crisis of bad jobs and stagnant wages. Twenty-first century working-class prosperity, however, must involve a reinvigorated labor … Continue reading
Fear of Hygge and Working-Class Social Capital
One of the contenders for the Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year” in 2016 is the Danish word hygge (pronounced hoo-guh). As defined by Oxford, it denotes “a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Jack Metzgar, Working-Class Culture
Tagged belonging, hygge, individualism, working-class culture
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Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us
Like many of my friends and colleagues who study class and are worried about the increasing economic inequality of this country, I was at first overjoyed that the recent presidential election would force us to reckon with the subject of … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues, Working-Class Politics
Tagged 2016 election, class and politics, working-class voters
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Profiting from the Working Class: How the Opioid Epidemic Echoes the Mortgage Crisis
For the second time in a decade, a group of Fortune 500 companies are engaged in a con game that is devastating working-class families and the communities in which they live. The first scam, which involved predatory lending and the … Continue reading
