Category Archives: Class at the Intersections

Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

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 →

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More than Cash: What It Really Takes to Address Poverty

Posted on April 24, 2017 by

What will it take to address poverty? If you build a school for girls in northern Nigeria or give a girl in the Philippines $2000, it might seem like you’re providing her with the things she needs to improve her … Continue reading →

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Classing the Resistance

Posted on April 3, 2017 by

One of the founding goals of new working-class studies was to counter the tendency for academic and political discussions to downplay class in favor of other aspects of identity and inequality. Most critical and public attention to cultural identity and … Continue reading →

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Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country

Posted on March 21, 2017 by

Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency.  Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white.  But if we look … Continue reading →

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Every Part of Us Has Parts

Posted on January 16, 2017 by

One of my first awakenings to the cultural divide between working-class and middle-class ways of seeing and being in the world was John Helmer’s 1974 book The Deadly Simple Mechanics of Society.   Focused on a critique of American sociology, the … Continue reading →

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Trumped Up Charges Against Evangelicals

Posted on November 14, 2016 by

Oops, they did it again! Those evangelicals ushered in yet another Republican president!  Britney Spears’s insight that some things just can’t be helped seems to apply to evangelicals and the way they vote. ABC News exit polls show that white … Continue reading →

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Solidarity, not Division: Understanding London’s East End

Posted on September 12, 2016 by

The East End of London has a long history of working-class community. It has been a place of industry, where the river Thames and the river Lea have provided work for many people. The area attracted many immigrants, including workers … Continue reading →

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