New Book: Masculinity, Labour, and Neoliberalism – Working-Class Men in International Perspective

October 16, 2017

Category: Capitalism, Charlie Walker, Class Conflict, Critical Social Science, Feminism, Gender, Labour, Neoliberalism, Steven Robert, Working-Class

Edited by by Charlie Walker & Steven Robert. From Palgrave: This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capita

New Book: The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

September 13, 2017

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Great Britain, History, Race, Racism, Ron Ramdin, Social Stratification, Working-Class

by Ron Ramdin. From Verso: In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black wo

EPI: How today’s unions help working people

August 25, 2017

Category: EPI, Income, Inequality, Labor, Labor Studies, Living Standards, Unions, Wages, Work, Workers, Working-Class

By Josh Bivens, Lora Engdahl, Elise Gould, Teresa Kroeger, Celine McNicholas, Lawrence Mishel, Zane Mokhiber, Heidi

Popular Revolt and the Global Working Class

July 6, 2017

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, Journal of Working-Class Studies, Working-Class

New Book: Radicals in the Barrio – Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class

June 25, 2017

Category: Activism, Chicano Movement, Civil Rights, Communists, immigration, Justin Akers Chacón, Magonistas, Mexico, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Socialism, Socialists, United States, Wobblies, Working-Class

by Justin Akers Chacón From Haymarket Books: Aground-breaking history of the radical political movements that devel

New Book: Unions and the City – Negotiating Urban Change

June 11, 2017

Category: Labor, Labor Movement, Labor Studies, Social Action, Social Change, Social Movements, Unions, Urban, Workers, Working-Class

Edited by Ian Thomas MacDonald. From ILR Press: Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in ma

A 21st Century Marxism: The Revolutionary Possibilities of the “New Economy”

June 11, 2017

Category: Capitalism, Chris Wright, Cooperatives, David Fields, Marx, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Work, Workers, Working-Class

By Chris Wright It should hardly be controversial anymore to say we’re embarking on the “end times”

Call For Papers: The Poverty of Academia – Exploring the Realities of Working Class Academics

May 30, 2017

Category: Academia, Call For Papers, David Fields, education, Higher Ed Crisis, Inequality, Journal of Working-Class Studies, Labor, Labor Studies, Poverty, Unpaid Labor, Work, Workers, Working-Class

The Journal of Working-Class Studies Special Issue, December 2017: The Poverty of Academia: Exploring the (Intersec

White Working-Class Voters and the Future of Progressive Politics

May 24, 2017

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, Michael Zweig, Politics, Race, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Trump, Working-Class

by Michael Zweig Rather than speaking of the working class in terms that reduce it to only categories of race and gender,

CALL FOR PAPERS: Freedom and Justice – Jobs, Economic Security, and Inclusion

May 3, 2017

Category: ASHE, C-SPAN, Call For Papers, Communalism, conferences, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economic Security, employment, Environment, Freedom, Gender, Human Potential, INET, jobs, John Jay, NEA, New School, Nina Banks, Public Investment, Race, Social Justice, Wages, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Working-Class

The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p

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