America rediscovered its working class during the 2016 election, and many Democrats and progressives now call for fresh policies to address the nation’s.

One of the contenders for the Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year” in 2016 is the Danish word hygge (pronounced hoo-guh). As defined.

I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services.

A scene in Denzel Washington’s movie of Fences is not in August Wilson’s original play, and it illustrates how a spate of Oscar-nominated.

Every year when I teach the sociology of work, I’m filled with the same nagging doubt: are my cultural references out of date?.

With the decline of good paying jobs in the private sector, public employment has been particularly important for working-class people. These state and.

There are moments when we middle-class professionals, or at least the progressive part of us, recognize our blindness.

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

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