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Powered by original field research and survey analysis in the United States and United Kingdom, The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a comprehensive and accessible exploration of white working-class politics and the populism that is transforming the transatlantic social and political landscape.In recent years, the world has been reintroduced to the constituency of ""white working-class"" people. In a wave of revolutionary populism, far right parties have scored victories across the transatlantic political world: Britain voted to leave the European Union, the United States elected President Donald Trump to enact an ""America First"" agenda, and Radical Right movements are threatening European centrists in elections across the continent. In each case, white working-class people are driving the reaction to the social change brought by globalization. In the midst of this rebellion, a new group consciousness has emerged among the very people who not so long ago could take their political, economic, and cultural primacy for granted. In The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Justin Gest provides the context for understanding this large group of people. He begins by explaining what ""white working class"" means in terms of demographics, history, and geography, as well as the ways in which this group defines itself and has been defined by others. Gest also addresses whether white identity is on the rise, why white people perceive themselves as marginalized, and the roles of racism and xenophobia in white consciousness. Finally, he looks at the political attitudes, voting behavior, and prospects for the future of the white working class. This accessible book provides a nuanced view into the forces driving one of the most complicated and consequential political constituencies today.

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Author:   Justin Gest (Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 13.70cm
Weight:   0.238kg
ISBN:  

9780190861407

ISBN 10:   0190861401
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   23 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1) Introduction and definitionsa) What does it mean to be ""white""?b) What does it mean to be ""working class""?c) How do these understandings change across Western countries?d) What are the narratives of the white working class across time?e) What are the demographics of white working class people?f) Where are white working class people the most politicized?2) White working class people and identitya) Is white identity on the rise?b) Why has whiteness grown in salience rather than working class social status?c) Why do white working class people feel marginalized?d) Can we think of white working class people as a ""minority""?e) Is white working class angst merely racism?f) Why is immigration so pivotal to white working class politics?3) White working class policy attitudes and beliefsa) Are white working class interests distinct?b) What are white working class policy attitudes?c) Do white working class people vote against their own interests?d) Do white working class people consume fewer government resources than others?e) Are white working class people really losing jobs to immigrants and minority groups?f) What drives tolerance and intolerance of minority groups?4) White working class people and votinga) What are white working class partisanship trends over time?b) What are white working class ideological trends over time?c) To what extent do white working class people support the Radical Right?d) Why do white working class people support Radical Right candidates and parties?e) Why do white working class people support Donald Trump?f) How has the election of Donald Trump affected white working class views?5) The future of white working class peoplea) Was the white working class ever ""on top""?b) Are white working class people ""trapped"" in poverty?c) Do they have more in common with other working class people than with whites?d) How has the decline in unions affected white working class politics?e) Can we speak of a white working class voting bloc? (Silos, Sorting, Group Conscious)f) Can Donald Trump or anyone else ""save"" the white working class?"

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Justin Gest is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government. He is also the author of The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality, Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West, and soon, Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change.

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