The Hill

What this year’s labor strikes mean for America’s working class

It wasn’t too long ago that a working-class job, meant a middle-class life. I grew up in Michigan in the 1970s, when some of us went off to college but many more went straight into factories, ...
The Conversation

Class and masculinity are connected – when industry changes, so does what it means to ‘be a man’

Young people involved in the panel have brought up class and the decline of industry as topics for discussion. This is particularly fitting, given my ongoing PhD research exploring masculinity and the ...
NPR

One city prides itself as the cradle of the working class. Here's why

MANCHESTER, England — In the center of this industrial city in northern England, a memorial commemorates protesters killed here at a demonstration for workers' rights in 1819, in what became known as ...
The New York Times

How Can Democrats Win Back the Working Class?

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 ...
The American Prospect

What the Working Class Really Believes

The reasons for the erosion of Democratic Party support within the American working class is a topic on which seemingly everyone has an opinion. It has renewed the debate between the left and the ...
The American Prospect

Working-Class Heroes

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at the Caribbean Day Parade, September 1, 2025. Credit: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 A number of progressive groups close to the Democratic Party and ...
The Conversation

Beyond ‘my dad was a toolmaker’: interviews with former politicians reveal what it’s really like to be working class in parliament

Most people following British politics would probably know by now that Labour leader Keir Starmer’s father was a toolmaker. He has talked many times about his working-class background and the way it ...