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
- by John Russo
- November 18, 2016
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Clinton and Trump: Labor and the Election of 2016
Both the polling and the pundits’ predictions of a Clinton victory were wrong. The reasons for Trump’s victory in part can be understood.
- by Andrew Kolin
- November 17, 2016
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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.
- by Daniel Sidorick
- November 15, 2016
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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.
- by Pamela Fox
- September 29, 2016
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The New Democrats and the Old Dominion: A Legacy of the Hyper-Capitalist 1990s
The rise of Virginia to national political prominence has been a long time coming. Well before the centrist Tim Kaine was given the.
- by Michael Dennis
- September 15, 2016
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The Education Campaign: Addressing Inequality through Teaching and Learning?
Other than Hillary Clinton’s adoption of Bernie Sanders’s proposal to make college tuition free for most Americans, we haven’t heard much about education.
- by Sherry Linkon
- August 20, 2016
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Portrait of a “Marriage”: Radicals & the Democratic Party
Prof. James N. Gregory has performed a real service with his “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders” (re-posted.
- by Mark Lause
- August 12, 2016
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The Right to Work, the Right to Carry, and the Right to Shoot
Cleveland's long history of guns is connected to anti-worker repression.
- by Chad Pearson
- July 18, 2016
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Racism and the “Working Class” in Media Coverage of U.S. Politics
During the first Democratic presidential debate, a friend of mine posted on Facebook: “Sanders did it! He said working class! Everybody drinks!” Robyn.
- by Robyn Muncy
- June 22, 2016