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When Gender Didn’t Matter

January 2018June 2018 Paula Finn election, gender, gender discrimination, working class

The January 2018 issue of New Labor Forum, off press this week, grapples with perhaps the most perplexing of the 2016

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Why Did a Majority of White Women Vote for Trump?

January 2018May 2018 Sarah Jaffe capitalism, conservatism, immigrant workers, populism, Republican Party, Tea Party, Trump, Winter 2018

Deciphering the political enigma of the women’s vote.

Class Featured Working-Class Culture

White Working-Class Voters and the Future of Progressive Politics

May 2017June 2019 Michael Zweig capitalism, collective bargaining, Democratic Party, elections, Labor, politics, populism, racism, Spring 2017, trade unions, working class

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, there have been hundreds of reflections written on the behavior, attitudes, needs, and prospects of the “white working class,” a segment of the population that will prove vital to any progressive coalition that stands for both social and economic justice. But what do we mean by “white working class”?

Class On the Contrary Race

How Census Data Mislead Us about Ethno-Racial Change in the United States: A Response to Mora and Rodríguez-Muñiz

April 2017June 2018 Richard Alba demographics, ethnicity, immigrant workers, politics, race, Spring 2017

I am pleased to open a conversation with G. Cristina Mora and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz about census data and what they

Class On the Contrary Race

A Response to Richard Alba’s “The Likely Persistence of a White Majority”

April 2017June 2018 G. Cristina Mora and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz demography, equality, Latinos, politics, racism, Spring 2017

That politics undergirds censuses is a truism. At least since Benedict Anderson wrote Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and

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Class-Based Affirmative Action

January 2015June 2018 Richard Kahlenberg and Julie Park Winter 2014

In the press, debates over affirmative action in higher education pit liberals (who support taking race into account in admissions) and conservatives (who oppose it). But there is a third way on the issue—affirmative action based on class, rather than race—which is far more progressive than our current system of racial preferences, the class-based approach is quickly gaining ground.

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