Context is Everything: Why Hidden Figures Feels not just Good, but Necessary
While Hidden Figures traffics in familiar Hollywood tropes, it also takes very seriously the discrimination endured by our heroines, reminding us that it.
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Class on the Small Screen
Every year when I teach the sociology of work, I’m filled with the same nagging doubt: are my cultural references out of date?.
- by Tim Strangleman
- March 30, 2017
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Class & Politics at the Dawn of the Trump Era
In trying to make sense of the surprising 2016 election — Who were Trump’s supporters? Were they motivated by the politics of pocketbooks,.
- by Daniel Graff
- March 27, 2017
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LAWCHA statement opposing Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor
The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) strongly opposes the nomination of Andrew Puzder for the position of Secretary of Labor. We believe.
- by LAWCHA Executive Committee
- February 14, 2017
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LAWCHA statement opposing Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor
The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) strongly opposes the nomination of Andrew Puzder for the position of Secretary of Labor. We believe.
- by LAWCHA Executive Committee
- February 14, 2017
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Is the Worst Yet to Come for Unions?
With the decline of good paying jobs in the private sector, public employment has been particularly important for working-class people. These state and.
- by John Russo
- February 6, 2017
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LAWCHA joins AHA statement condemning travel ban executive order
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- by Ryan Poe
- February 1, 2017
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Is Solidarity Possible?: Cops Are Workers Too
When railroad mogul Jay Gould beat the Knights of Labor in 1886, he revealed his strategy. “I can hire one half of the.
- by Steve Thornton
- January 21, 2017
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Every Part of Us Has Parts
There are moments when we middle-class professionals, or at least the progressive part of us, recognize our blindness.
- by Jack Metzgar
- January 20, 2017
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The Origins of Right-to-Work: Vance Muse, Anti-Semitism, and the Maintenance of Jim Crow Labor Relations
As Kentucky legislators pass a measure outlawing the union shop and Missouri’s General Assembly contemplates doing the same, it is worth remembering that.
- by Michael Pierce
- January 12, 2017