working class

Poor People’s Campaign threatens Manchin, Sinema with working-class voters’ power

October 26, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Poor and low-income voters accounted for 35% of the 168 million ballots cast in 2020.

Australia sends military to quarantine working-class communities, leaves wealthy areas untouched

August 13, 2021 By The Guardian, The Workers’ Weekly

In working-class areas and communities of color, authorities are using military might to look like they're controlling the pandemic. Meanwhile, rich neighborhoods with COVID cases go unpoliced.

‘Shuggie Bain’, tale of Scottish working-class life under Thatcherism, wins Booker Prize

July 30, 2021 By Jenny Farrell

Alcoholism and its effect on people and communities is explored from the perspective of a loving and protective child, who observes all the secrecies, shame, and suicidal self-hate it brings.

‘From the Plough to the Stars: Working People’s Prose from Contemporary Ireland’

March 9, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

The collection reads almost like a tour guide, as the writers lead us through old working-class districts of Dublin and some of the new estates established to rid the cities of their slums.

TV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series

December 21, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...