white-working-class

CHAPTER 10 Don’t They Understand that Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back? LET’S GET REAL. Many of those blue-collar jobs lost ...

The new manufacturing economy, concluded the MIT Task Force on Production in the Innovation Economy, requires “training for jobs ...

that elite kids get from their parents.^205 At a deeper level, what’s needed is a very different kind of education-to-employment ...

Technology Excellence, which trains local people for skilled jobs managing computerized robot-heavy modern factory jobs, the Lin ...

These programs provide the model for the future of working-class jobs that yield a solid middle-class standard of living. But in ...

CHAPTER 11 Why Don’t Working-Class Men Just Take “Pink-Collar” Jobs? MANLY DIGNITY is highly important to working-class men, and ...

twentieth-century ones. What’s a path forward? Let’s begin with a question: What’s a job that requires intensive scientific trai ...

Putting it there would require a cultural shift. Blue-collar jobs carry social prestige elsewhere, for example, in Germany, but ...

CHAPTER 12 Why Don’t the People Who Benefit Most from Government Help Seem to Appreciate It? BY 2008, my father-in-law was in ba ...

whether to certify disability, always asks patients what grade they finished in school, which “is not really a medical question. ...

Conservatives have engaged in a sustained, decades-long effort to popularize negative attitudes toward government. They have bee ...

Another fruitful theme is the way the federal government has helped make the United States uniquely prosperous and innovative. N ...

none, well, then there’s no counter-narrative. People will only see the downside of regulation and not the upside. There’s anoth ...

schools, etc., and ending with the phrase, “Thank you, Uncle Sam!” No funding’s come through yet, but I still think this has pot ...

CHAPTER 13 Can Liberals Embrace the White Working Class without Abandoning Important Values and Allies? “SHOULD THE PARTY contin ...

to talk respectfully with the white working class will help Democrats reach Latino voters, too. Ending class cluelessness also w ...

Americans’ faces at every turn. A coalition is like a family in two ways. First, it involves trading. If you get your way on thi ...

whole, but bad for people working in specific industries without providing for job training for people in those industries. I’m ...

Civil liberties. These can be framed to appeal to the high value that working-class whites place on privacy (“not spilling your ...

At the same time, police have a stressful and dangerous job, and most work hard to do a tough job well. There are a few bad appl ...