Blue Collars and Hard-Hats: The Working Class and the Future of American Politics
By Unknown Author.
Description
The working-class American and the poor have common economic and social grievances, say the authors. Both are hit hardest by down-turns in the economy and both are asked to pay the greatest price, in human life, for current national policies. Yet in backlash attitudes and conservative voting patterns, part of working-class America has set itself against the nation's poor. According to the Sextons, this antagonism is misdirected, and derives, ironically, from the very frustrations which should bind these two groups in a natural alliance. The Sextons argue that those intellectuals and op...
ISBN(s)
0394461509, 9780394461502
