White working class : overcoming class cluelessness in America / Joan C. Williams.
"Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Harvard Business Review Press,
[2017]
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| Physical Description: | x, 180 pages ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Why talk about class?
- Who is the working class?
- Why does the working class resent the poor?
- Why does the working class resent professionals but admire the rich?
- Why doesn't the working class just move to where the jobs are?
- Why doesn't the working class get with it and go to college?
- Why don't they push their kids harder to succeed?
- How racist is the working class?
- How sexist is the working class?
- Don't they understand that manufacturing jobs aren't coming back?
- Why don't working-class men just take "pink-collar" jobs?
- Why don't the people who benefit most from government help seem to appreciate it?
- Can we embrace the white working class without abandoning our values and our allies?
- How the class culture gap drives politics.