Posts Tagged ‘class’

Tomorrow: The Future of Manufacturing and Working-Class Communities

The Center for Working-Class Studies Lecture Series welcomes Manufacturing and Technology News editor Richard McCormack to campus Thursday. There is a public lecture in the evening from 7:30-9:00 p.m. entitled “Working-Class Communities and the Future of Manufacturing.” The lecture will be...
January 27th, 2010 | Events | Read More

More on the importance of libraries

I authored a guest post for the Working Class Perspectives blog on technology, libraries and the working class. If you missed it earlier, I also published a Vindy post a few weeks back on the library-funding crisis. Ohio has made news in the last month by proposing to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
July 13th, 2009 | Politics | Read More

CWCS Survey: First Hundred Days

I’ve been working with the Center for Working-Class Studies to develop a survey series. My hope is that the analysis from these surveys will be valuable information they can turn into a revenue generator. The first hundred days of a presidency have become a key indicator (at least for pundits)...
April 30th, 2009 | Events | Read More

Sports not enough to turn economy around

John Russo, co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies, blogged this week about sports journalists’ and commentators’ predilections to overuse class in talking about sports. This entry was recommended as a Washington Post Staff Pick today. I’ll make a similar recommendation,...
April 14th, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More

Center for Working-Class Studies launches new Web site

In September, I began working with the Center for Working-Class Studies at YSU (CWCS) to develop a new strategy for their Web site. Some of the challenges of the existing site were that it presented the text in a small area, generated content on-demand and in a fashion impossible for search engines to...
January 11th, 2009 | Technology | Read More

New Blog: Working-Class Perspectives

New, from the Center for Working-Class Studies, comes Working-Class Perspectives: a new blog. The blog “offers weekly commentaries on current issues related to working-class people and communities. Contributors will discuss a variety of issues, from what class means to how it intersects with race...
August 22nd, 2008 | Youngstown | Read More