Michael Kazin always has good things to say and one of the things he notes here is that not only is it necessary to rebuild unions to rebuild the Democratic.
A provocative and important new paper on the political impact of NAFTA and other free trade agreements. Here is the abstract, obviously you should read the whole thing. Why have.
There's a whole industry out there trying to explain why poor whites don't "vote in their own interest." The problem with this phrasing--which Thomas Frank made perhaps the most famous.
I am going to leave behind my usual critique that so much political science is writing in opaque language and using pointless modeling to "discover" things that historians have already.
For today's podcast, I interview Jarod Roll of the University of Mississippi about his new book Poor Man's Fortune: White Working Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950. This might.
Jefferson Cowie has an excellent essay on how labor historians totally missed Trump. And he's right--it's that way too many labor historians have huge ideological blinders that romanticize working class.
In the aftermath of the 2016 elections, there's been way too many articles trying to explain conservative white voters in terms of one issue. Did white people vote for Trump.
I don't know quite know what to make of this, but for those of us who know that the problems of the white working class is more than just "they.
