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Some recent positions on Antonio Gramsci portray him as a vanguardist who outright rejects common sense and popular culture as playing a role in counter-hegemony or political resistance. This manuscript seeks to provide a corrective to these recent portrayals. It does so by accurately evaluating Gramsci’s position on the dialectical relationship subaltern (popular) beliefs have to counter-hegemony; by considering his bottom-up stance on the relationship organic intellectuals have to the subaltern; by focusing on his cutting edge position on ideological articulation; and in light of his articulations regarding the role of subaltern passion and subaltern-centered pedagogy for counter-hegemony. As a way to illustrate the significance of the subaltern for counter-hegemony, the potential of popular religion for counter-hegemony is explored.

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There is a growing body of literature that analyzes the Phillips curve model in the context of subnational labor markets. To date the results of these analyses have been mixed. This paper estimates a tiered version of a modified Phillips curve for local labor markets in the midwest region of the U.S. The purpose of the model is to test the significance of a wage-unemployment trade-off at the metropolitan level, and to determine the significance of a downward wage transmission effect through the tiers of an urban hierarchy. Using the method of ordinary least squares, the results provide no evidence of a significant Phillips curve type of relationship between wages and unemployment at the local level. However, the wage transmission effect from the upper order cities of the hierarchy to the lower order cities appears to be a significant determinant of the rate of change of wages in metropolitan areas.