Class has always mattered, and now labour parties around the world are finding out why.
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Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.
When southeast Chicago’s steel industry collapsed, the loss reverberated through neighborhoods built around the mills. Former mill workers explain why they stayed as the local economy fell.
Canada needs a taxonomy that’s more sophisticated and updated — one that can better describe the different types of jobs and workers that make up Canada’s modern labour market.
Donald Trump’s ticket to the White House was a coarse version of populism. Will his successors in the GOP be different – or simply present a more polished version of his antagonistic rhetoric?
President Trump says that the white working class is being pushed out of the job market. But that doesn’t seem to be true for the best-paying blue-collar jobs.
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Research Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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PhD Student in Public Administration, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Drexel University
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Goldfarb Family Distinguished Chair in American Government, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University