Video game devotees are much more likely to be working-class than middle-class, says research ~games Article 758 words 28 votes
Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ~books Article 4205 words 5 votes
Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein ~humanities.history Article 1848 words 4 votes
Hive cities: Reality or fiction? ~design architecture.metabolism architecture.parasitic Video 14:58 7 votes
Some call us ungrateful middle-class feminists – but this is why women went on strike in Iceland ~life.women Article 650 words 26 votes
Poor teeth - If you have a mouthful of teeth shaped by a childhood in poverty, don’t go knocking on the door of American privilege ~life Article 3593 words 13 votes
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren ~humanities Video 57:38, published Feb 1 2008 8 votes
Denmark's socialist left needs to reverse the decline in working-class mobilization – mass-membership parties have been replaced by a professionalized media-political sphere ~society politics Article 2292 words 12 votes
How do we avoid future authoritarians? Winning back the working class is key. ~society politics Article 969 words 16 votes
RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1% - The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year ~finance economics Article 1424 words 33 votes
The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered ~finance economics Article 2019 words 7 votes
Donald Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): Assault on US labor in the pandemic era ~life work Link 5 votes
Amazon eliminates pay raises for workers as COVID-19 toll mounts ~finance economics business Article 1069 words 5 votes
The roots of the October Revolution in Iraq: From October 2019 until the lockdown in March, Iraqi revolutionaries from working-class backgrounds defied state repression to fill the squares of Iraq ~society politics Link 3 votes
Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period ~humanities.history Article 2742 words 7 votes
How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts ~life education work Article 922 words 26 votes
How the Goth pubs of Sweden transformed drinking in Scotland's industrial heartlands ~food drinks Article 902 words, published Jun 12 2019 8 votes
How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain’s next prime minister ~society politics Article 3979 words 13 votes
James Kelman on the Booker, class and literary elitism ~books Article 1926 words, published Mar 13 2019 4 votes
'Esquire' criticized for cover story on 'what it’s like to grow up white, middle class, and male' ~life Article 328 words 10 votes
Middle-class San Francisco tenants are moving into dorms for reasonable rent ~life housing.student education.higher housing.affordable Article 1848 words, published Mar 4 2018 9 votes
Democrats should get real with White working-class voters ~society politics Article 927 words 13 votes
Jordan's middle class revolt. Days of protest in Jordan have forced the resignation of Prime Minister Hani Mulki ~news jordan politics Article 674 words 6 votes