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Immersed in the Work of Art
This summer, five different immersive Van Gogh opportunities are circulating in dozens of cities around the world, including Detroit, Buenos Aires, and Perth, Australia. If you live in one of the cities that has (or soon will be) hosting one … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Kathy M. Newman, Work
Tagged class and art, immersive art exhibit, Van Gogh, work
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Class and the Dignity of Work
In the week before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown announced his “Dignity of Work” tour, with events in New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada, South Carolina, and his home state, Ohio. The tour placed the working class at … Continue reading
Valuing a Lost Work Culture
Late last fall I visited Stoke-on Trent, a city in the North-West of England which was once the epicentre of the UK’s huge pottery industry, now fallen on decidedly hard times. Local artist and academic Neil Brownsword, who had begun … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman, Understanding Class, Work, Working-Class Culture
Tagged nostalgia, work, working-class culture
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McDonald’s, FedEx, and Shifting Legal Views of Employment
Sometimes seemingly obscure legal rulings indicate major changes in the struggle for social and economic justice. Two recent rulings involving independent contractors and franchise employers could help enable workers and unions to make breakthroughs in improving wages and working conditions. … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, John Russo, Work, Working-Class Politics
Tagged economic inequality, employment law, franchises, independent contractor, NLRB, work
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Labor Day Reading: New Stories of Work
Labor Day was created in the 1880s as a celebration of work and workers. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the idea came from either Peter J. Maguire or Matthew Maguire – one a leader in the Brotherhood of … Continue reading
The Lunch Bucket Award
One of my grandsons won the Lunch Bucket Award on his high school football team a couple weeks ago. And his father’s reaction to it and mine surprised me, especially for what it showed about class differences across generations. The … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Issues, Jack Metzgar, Understanding Class, Working-Class Culture
Tagged Class and sports, grit, parenting, work, working-class culture
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Playing Indian: What Outsourced Says About the American Economy
On a recent episode of NBC’s Outsourced, Todd, the clueless American who runs the call center for a US-based novelty company in Mumbai, is trying to understand what the Hindu celebration of Diwali is all about. He asks one of … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Kathy M. Newman
Tagged call center, Class and the Media, Outsourced, racism, television, work
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