How Can the Left Win Back the Working Class? with Joan Williams

How Can the Left Win Back the Working Class? with Joan Williams

Joan Williams' new book is "Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class & How to Win Them Back." Join her at this Talking Class webinar

By Working-Class Studies Association

Date and time

Thursday, September 18 · 4 - 5:30pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Joan Williams stands out as a no-BS voice on class, and on classism among liberals.

Lots of us have been influenced by her 2017 book "White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America." Now her new book has an even more pointed critique of where progressives have gone off the rails.

In this latest webinar in the Talking Class series, sponsored by the Working-Class Studies Association, Jack Metzgar and Betsy Leondar-Wright will ask her about the broken relationship between working-class people and college-educated progressives.

People’s values reflect their lives, and their lives reflect their privilege—or lack of it. The path forward is not just to center kitchen-table economics—though that’s important. Equally vital is to develop the cultural competence to connect with working-class tastes, cultures and values. Building an effective cross-class coalition to bridge the “diploma divide” will require both a change in messaging and a change in priorities. Williams explains how, on issues from climate change to gun control to pandemics to LGBTQ+ issues and more.

As always, this will be an interactive session. Your thoughts will be welcome!

Frequently asked questions

Will the webinar be recorded?

Yes, we will record the webinar and send the link to all registrants. So if you can't make this time, please register anyway to get that follow-up email. Links to past Talking Class webinar recordings can be found here: https://classmatters.org/events/

How do I access the webinar?

A Zoom link will be sent via email to all registrants.

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