The Dual Economy
In his new book The Vanishing Middle Class, MIT economist Peter Temin provides a short and accessible take on this country’s deeply unequal.
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The Work Lives of Uber Drivers: Worse Than You Think
To be an Uber driver is to work when you want. Or so Uber likes to say in recruitment materials, advertisements, and sponsored.
- by Katie Wells
- August 8, 2017
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Poor Whites and the Labor Crisis in the Slave South
While studies on southern slaveholders, yeomen, and even the enslaved abound, relatively little has been written about the Deep South’s white working-class. My.
- by Keri Leigh Merritt
- July 17, 2017
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LAWCHA In Seattle: 2017 Conference Recap
The Scales of Struggle conference featured the largest program of any LAWCHA conference to date features nearly 100 panels, workshops, films, and performances,.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 6, 2017
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Mass Incarceration and the Working Class – LAWCHA Conference 2017
At the 2017 LAWCHA Conference in Seattle, a world-class panel of experts discussed the affects of mass incarceration on the working class. Featured.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 5, 2017
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Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity
America rediscovered its working class during the 2016 election, and many Democrats and progressives now call for fresh policies to address the nation’s.
- by Lane Windham
- July 4, 2017
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Fear of Hygge and Working-Class Social Capital
One of the contenders for the Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year” in 2016 is the Danish word hygge (pronounced hoo-guh). As defined.
- by Jack Metzgar
- July 3, 2017
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Congratulations to our 2017 Award Winners
Congratulations to our 2017 prize and award winners, announced formally at the 2017 Annual LAWCHA Conference in Seattle, Washington. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- July 1, 2017
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Nancy MacLean on Democracy Now
Amy Goodman spoke with Duke University historian and former LAWCHA president Nancy MacLean, author of the new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep.
- by James Gregory
- July 1, 2017
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Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us
Like many of my friends and colleagues who study class and are worried about the increasing economic inequality of this country, I was.
- by Allison L. Hurst
- June 20, 2017