Tag Archives: Working class

Crossroads: American Labor, the Freelancers Union, and Precarity

Posted on February 2, 2015 by

Several weeks ago, I attended the “The American Labor at a Crossroads: New Thinking, New Organizing, New Strategies” Conference in Washington, DC, sponsored by The American Prospect, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, and the Albert Shanker Institute. It was nice to … Continue reading →

Posted in Contributors, Issues, John Russo, The Working Class and the Economy | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

The Incredibly Shrinking Working Class? The View from the “Professional” Bubble

Posted on June 24, 2013 by

In a semi-sympathetic article about unions organizing professional workers, a Chicago Tribune/Los Angeles Times reporter last month provided the following, colossally wrong, picture of American workers: “Professionals account for 62 percent of the U.S. workforce, up from 15 percent in … Continue reading →

Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Jack Metzgar | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Shout Working Class

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

Nearly 18 years ago, at the closing session of a conference on Working-Class Lives at Youngstown State University, we posed this question: if there were a Center for Working-Class Studies, what should it be doing?  We heard over 100 suggestions, … Continue reading →

Posted in Contributors, John Russo, Sherry Linkon | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments

Class and the Olympics

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

By the time you read this the Olympics and Paralympics will be over in London. Both sets of games have been very popular in Britain and have stimulated thousands of column inches of media interest.  In amongst the coverage of … Continue reading →

Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

The Trouble with Work: Rethinking “Working Class”

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

Last month, I blogged about the challenges of teaching an analysis of the US class structure that recognizes our sizeable working-class majority and critiques the myth of the broad inclusive “middle class.”    I closed by questioning what’s at stake for … Continue reading →

Posted in Contributors, Issues, Nick Coles, Understanding Class, Working-class politics | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

The Creative Class Joins the Working-Class

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

How is the so-called creative class faring in the ongoing economic crisis?  In three books published in the first decade of this century, Richard Florida argued that America’s future lay in metropolitan regions with a high density of “sexually diverse,” … Continue reading →

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Movin’ on Down: CMT addresses the Working Class

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

Country Music Television (CMT) aired a new sitcom last Friday, January 28th, to voluminous pre-media coverage—most of it positive.  It is called, surprisingly, Working Class, and it stars blonde amazon Melissa Peterman as Carli Mitchell, a twice-divorced mom with three … Continue reading →

Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Kathy M. Newman | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment