Tag Archives: class activism

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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Climate Change as a Class Issue

Posted on November 18, 2013 by

On a Monday morning a month ago I was sitting on the marble floor of the Squirrel Hill branch of PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, with a circle of activists protesting PNC’s financing of mountain-top removal (MTR) coal mining across Appalachia.  … Continue reading →

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