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Everyday Encounters: Antagonism in the Sharing Economy

Contemporary service industry jobs, many of them tied to the sharing economy, affect both workers and customers. As Diane Negra and John Russo.

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Deindustrialisation, Deregulation, and Division: The Case of Shirebrook and Sports Direct

Deindustrialisation has ravaged areas of the English North and Midlands, areas that are also some of the hardest hit by successive governments’ programs.

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How Bill Clinton Remade the Democratic Party by Abandoning Unions: An Arkansas Story

Much has been made in the recent campaign about the alienation of working-class whites from the Democratic Party. Michael Pierce shows this is.

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Don’t Blame Youngstown

The elites who turned a blind eye to an economic cataclysm are now blaming the victims. John Russo

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Misrepresenting the White Working Class: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and McDowell County

The Guardian‘s West Coast bureau chief paid a quick visit to McDowell County, West Virginia in October to film a video for the.

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“Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights,” a film by Michael Honey

Historians look for details to make history come alive, and oral history can provide them. Over thirty years of research, my scores of.

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA Opportunity

Gutman Prize 2017: Call for Submissions

The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize, established with the cooperation with.

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Working on the Verge of “Campus Carry”

One of several nightmarish outcomes of Kansas' swing to the Tea Party Republican right following the presidential election of Barack Obama, the state.

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Tinkering with Taxes

The recent debacle Apple has found itself in brings attention to how companies skip from country to country to avoid taxes. In a.

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Who is Shameless This Election Season? One TV Show’s Challenging Depiction of the Working Poor

Since the 2016 Presidential race began, pundits have been scrambling to understand what is apparently the most inscrutable segment of the Trump voting.

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