Justin Gest

White Working Class

What Everyone Needs to Know

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Produktbeschreibung

Powered by original field research and survey analysis in the United States and United Kingdom, The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) 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(R), 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780190861407
• ISBN-10: 0190861401
• Artikelnr.: 49785453

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1) Introduction and definitions
* a) 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 identity
* a) 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 beliefs
* a) 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 voting
* a) 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 people
* a) 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?