Are Working-Class Voters Done with Democrats?

Class Dealignment & the Two-Party System

 

Friday, January 31

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Free and open to all.  Lunch will be served. 

 

*In-person* only:

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

25 West 43rd Street, 18th floor, New York, NY 10036 (map)

 

 

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Why did so many working-class voters support Republicans over Democrats in the 2024 elections?  Was the problem simply 'messaging', or have Democrats entrenched themselves as the party of corporate elites and Wall Street?  What can Democrats do to win back this crucial demographic and how do we define (or re-define) the working-class?  Will Democrats make a strong commitment to economic populism to reverse this class dealignment?

To delve into these questions join us for a conversation with Jared Abbott, director of the Center for Working Class Politics, and New Labor Forum Editor-at-Large Micah Uetricht.  This program is a live recording for SLU’s podcast Reinventing Solidarity.

 

 

Speaker Bios:

Jared Abbott is a political scientist and the director of the Center for Working Class Politics.  His work has been published or featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC Radio, The Nation, The American Prospect, Boston Review and Jacobin, among others.  Read his article, "Working Class Dealignment: A Primer", and see other published work on class dealignment here and here.

 

Micah Uetricht is Editor-at-Large of New Labor Forum, a national labor journal produced by the Murphy Institute at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and host of SLU’s podcast Reinventing Solidarity. Uetricht is also the editor of Jacobin and the author of two books: Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity; and Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism (co-authored by Meagan Day).

 

 

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