The essay explicitly talks about the working class becoming more credentialed due to economic shifts. And discusses in incredibly orthodox terms the recomposition of the working class (and the role of the means of production shaping it).

Any academic knows that income/education are common proxies we're forced to deal with.

But they still tell us a lot. It's worth noting that CWCP operationalized Wright's class schemas in studies and we found very similar results to using education (which will likely become less effective over time)

And you had no response to what I said at length about your distortion of both that essay as a whole and this particular point:

1. This was a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.

Glad to hear it, I'm grateful!

I'm not sure where in the world you would get this idea from, but I've organized with teachers before and worked on an entire activist teachers' guide with the CTU's CORE. What a bizarre reference.

Born too late for the Windies glory days. Born too early for the US cricket glory days :-(

Who says it does? bsky.app/profile/sunr...

Here's the full essay on class dealignment and what it's meant for both social democracy and its stunted New Deal cousin: theideasletter.substack.com/p/social-dem...

2. The essay explicitly talks about the working class becoming more credentialed due to economic shifts.

The OP was before the election, but the results should make it even harder to be a dealignment denier. There's no doubt that Harris also lost ground among the college-educated working class.

Fwiw, Center for Working-Class Politics literally operationalized E.O. Wright's class schemas in studies and we found very similar results to using education (which will likely become less effective over time).

Any academic knows that income and education are the common proxies we're forced to use