In her 2016 book “Strangers in Their Own Land,” sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild explored the motivations and terrors that drove Donald Trump’s support among the American working class. One of the ...
The American tradition of labor theory and its relevance to the contemporary working class / John H.M. Laslett -- Changing workers in a changing economy / S.M. Miller -- Race, class and the new ...
Voters trusted President Donald Trump to handle the economy, but after eight months of wild and costly tariff policies, attacks on independent institutions like the Federal Reserve Board, and massive ...
Mr. Kuhn, a producer of the forthcoming PBS documentary “Hard Hat Riot,” is the author of “The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.” Democrats are ...
In the aftermath of the GOP’s decisive victory in 2024, I wrote a column arguing that Democrats could appeal to working-class voters again by embracing big government populism and targeting the ...
Stephanie Duboc of Eagle River, Alaska, shops at the Chugiak-Eagle River Food Pantry inside a Presbyterian church in Eagle River, Alaska. [AP Photo/Mark Thiessen] The Trump administration’s threat to ...
Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party? Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, discusses what it would take for Democrats to better appeal to working-class ...
Gary Roth reviews Eric Leif Davin's "Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960" in Insurgent Notes #7. Eric Leif Davin has noticed something important about the ...