A discussion about class in the 21st century. BHASKAR SUNKARA: Only Workers Can Smash the Machine. ... For the last century and a half, the working class has been at the center of socialist politics.

The decline of manufacturing has been touted as a transition to a knowledge economy and the rise of a globally competitive Creative Class. In towns and cities across the U.S., however, the current ...

He suggests that the "American Dream" may vanish in the 21st century unless something is done to bring back a balance in class power. "Unless opposition arises to this social structure through ...

Working People is a podcast about working-class lives in 21st-century America. In every episode you'll hear interviews with workers from around the country, from all walks of life.

The results for the greatest film of the 21st century are in, and the results are an acclaimed Best Picture-winning South ...

Of all the scary stats you've heard about the U.S. economy over the last few years, this might be the scariest: Almost two-thirds of American households earn less money today than they did in 2002 ...

And as working-class families have grown more fragile, and communities, churches, and neighborhoods less close, ... and insecurity of 21st-century American life. ...

The wealthy elite have pulled ahead - and the old boundaries between middle and working class are now more blurred. In his new book, Social Class in the 21st Century, ...

A strategy for building a rural-urban working-class coalition. Ad Policy Sarah Lloyd, a member of the Wisconsin Farmers Union and president of the local chapter, works on her farm in Wisconsin ...

Within a week of its publication in 2013, roughly one in five of the British adult population - about seven million people - had clicked on the BBC's Great British Class Calculator. Now, using ...