working class Archives - The American Scholar

Waking From the Dream

By Nancy Isenberg | 06/05/2017 |

Most Americans assume society is more egalitarian than it is

Dreiser’s Strivers

By Peter Baida | 08/27/2015 |

Putting Sister Carrie to work

The Silent Majority

By William Deresiewicz | 03/31/2013 |

How should we talk about the working class?

The Dispossessed

By William Deresiewicz | 12/01/2006

First we stopped noticing members of the working class, and now we’re convinced they don’t exist