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Film

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Shout Youngstown, Part 5

Shout Youngstown incorporates videos, archival audio and oral histories to explore the effects of the shutdown of the steel industry, beginning with Black Monday, on the greater Youngstown area. By Carol Greenwald & Dorie Krauss

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Shout Youngstown, Part 3

Shout Youngstown incorporates videos, archival audio and oral histories to explore the effects of the shutdown of the steel industry, beginning with Black Monday, on the greater Youngstown area. By Carol Greenwald & Dorie Krauss

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Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.

Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants -- stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy.

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Shout Youngstown, Part 2

Shout Youngstown incorporates videos, archival audio and oral histories to explore the effects of the shutdown of the steel industry, beginning with Black Monday, on the greater Youngstown area. By Carol Greenwald & Dorie Krauss

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Steel Town - 1944 film

A film about the steel mill town of Youngstown,Ohio and its workers in 1944.

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Factory Worker Management - 1955 short

A story about managing factory workers for maximum efficiency at Logan Company in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Shout Youngstown, Part 4

Shout Youngstown incorporates videos, archival audio and oral histories to explore the effects of the shutdown of the steel industry, beginning with Black Monday, on the greater Youngstown area. By Carol Greenwald & Dorie Krauss

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Shout Youngstown, Part 1

Shout Youngstown incorporates videos, archival audio and oral histories to explore the effects of the shutdown of the steel industry, beginning with Black Monday, on the greater Youngstown area. By Carol Greenwald & Dorie Krauss

Music

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They Call Us Working Class, but we ain't working anymore

Walter Trout Band musical commentary on working today.

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Youngstown by Eddie St. Clair

This was written in 1993 and recording in 1996. It was the artist's perspective after his grandfather lost his pension when the steel mills shut down.

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Youngstown - Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen performs his song "Youngstown" at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown, Ohio on January 12, 1996.

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Working-Class Hero - John Lennon

Working-Class Video

News, music and discussion of Working-Class culture and issues.

They Call Us Working Class, but we ain't working anymore

Walter Trout Band musical commentary on working today.