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Remembering to Forget: The Loss of Working-Class Industrial Jobs
One of the problems I regularly encounter teaching undergraduate students sociology is their use of the term ‘post-industrial’ in their essays, by which they often mean that countries like the UK no longer have industry or the jobs that went … Continue reading
Grime You Can Never Wash Off: Internet Content Moderation and New Frontiers in Labor Exploitation
Scrolling through e-mails and my Facebook news feed one morning last week, I came across two related articles. The first, from Alternet, was about the disproportionate harassment and abuse that women face online. Citing a recent Atlantic exposé on the … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues, Work
Tagged content moderation, internet harassment, workers, working conditions
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The Value(s) of Working-Class Jobs
When I was a kid growing up I looked up to my cousin. Ronald was twenty years my senior, and in his mid-twenties he decided to become a bus driver on London Transport. Whenever I saw him, I would be … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman, Working-Class Politics
Tagged British politics, Bus drivers, Sajid Javid, upward mobility, workers
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Better Jobs Drive Better Business
Good jobs are hard to find. Hard jobs – entailing bone-tiring work, low wages, and limited or no advancement opportunities — are all too plentiful. And in our country that’s been a big and growing problem dating back at least … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues, The Working Class and the Economy, Work
Tagged Class and economics, good business, good jobs, workers
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Advertising Work
I’m always interested in popular images of working-class life, but like most people, I barely see TV commercials anymore, so it took me a while to notice a recent trio of ads that use work as a marketing theme. Advertisers … Continue reading
“Soiled by the mud of the street:” Pope Francis and the Working Class
A simple “letter” can cement a tradition, forge alliances, defend the voiceless. Indeed, Catholic Social Teaching began with one. James Gibbons, the Archbishop of Baltimore, hand-delivered a letter to Pope Leo XIII in 1887, protesting the Archbishop of Quebec’s earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues, Labor and Community Activism
Tagged Catholic social teaching, justice, Pope Francis, Poverty, workers
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What about the Workers?
During the mid-1980s I was a member of the UK Labour Party. One of the most memorable branch meetings I went to – OK there isn’t a lot of competition – was after I had finished an early shift on … Continue reading
