Tag Archives: class and gender

This is Your Daughter’s Labor Movement

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Working-Class Perspectives

If there is going to be a revival of the U.S. labor movement, it’s likely that women are going to lead it. Women activists, especially young women of color, are doing much more than resuscitating traditional unions; they’re pushing boundaries … Continue reading →

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Working-Class Women Unionists on the Front Lines

Posted on December 11, 2017 by sarahattfield

On November 16, 2017, thousands of construction workers walked off their job sites to march through central Sydney in protest against laws designed to limit the power of unions in the construction industry. Workers from many unions joined the ‘Stop … Continue reading →

Posted in Class at the Intersections, Contributors, Issues, Labor and Community Activism, Sarah Attfield | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Springsteen’s Born to Run: Memoir as “Repair”

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Working-Class Perspectives

Few rock music memoirs have caught the attention of esteemed novelists such as Richard Ford, whose New York Times review of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run (2016) exalts the musician as not simply an extraordinary artist and showman but a … Continue reading →

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Can Working-Class Women Have It All?

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Working-Class Perspectives

This past summer, Anne-Marie Slaughter generated a tsunami of commentary with her Atlantic cover story about “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.”  According to the magazine’s editors, the article broke records for online readers, Facebook likes, and comments, and … Continue reading →

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