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Joan C. Williams - White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America - 9781633693784 - V9781633693784
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White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

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Description for White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America Hardback. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFS; JFSL; JPFM; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 as "something approaching rock star status" in her field by the New York Times, explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white working class is misguided, rooted in assumptions by what she has controversially coined "class cluelessness." Williams explains how most analysts, and the corresponding media coverage, have conflated "working class" with "poor." All too ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781633693784
SKU
V9781633693784
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Joan C. Williams
Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law and Hastings Foundation Chair at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Williams’s work includes What Works for Women at Work, coauthored with Rachel Dempsey (New York University Press, 2014); Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000); and such widely ... Read more

Reviews for White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
"her diagnosis of the problem is spot-on and consistently thought-provoking."
Bloomberg View "A wake-up call for the elite, as well as an analysis of the state of the world."
Fly BMI "One of the essential tomes of the Trump era."
Financial Times "White Working Class should be read by every mopey, whining, delusional Democrat ... Read more

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