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WHITE WORKING CLASS Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America Joan C. Williams HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW PRESS BOSTON, MASSACHUSETT ...

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To my children, with hopes for their future Dedication ...

Equality means dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I hav ...

Contents Foreword by Mark Cuban Preface 1.Why Talk About Class? 2.Who Is the Working Class? 3.Why Does the Working Class Resent ...

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Foreword Too many Americans feel that Washington has turned its back on them. They know they work hard, and they believe that an ...

I’ve been in situations where I’ve come home to find my utilities turned off. Where I didn’t have money to pay for health care a ...

Preface It’s been quite a ride. In the 18 months after the publication of White Working Class , I spent more time in the halls o ...

would help level the playing field for women and people of color in professional jobs— check them out at BiasInterrupters.org—al ...

the left need to create a return to economic opportunity as well as new feeling rules that stigmatize derision of all disadvanta ...

should be available and affordable to anyone with the drive and the inclination to go, but we also need community colleges to wo ...

CHAPTER 1 Why Talk About Class? MY FATHER-IN-LAW GREW up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the hum ...

overweight, incompetent, clumsy, thoughtless and a borderline alcoholic” (to quote Wikipedia).^1 He works as an inspector at a n ...

fundamentalist rural America,”^6 this is a recipe for extreme alienation among working- class whites. Deriding “political correc ...

But we have to try. Or we will keep making the same mistakes that have helped foster the populist, anti-establishment anger that ...

CHAPTER 2 Who Is the Working Class? PRESUMABLY ON THE THEORY that no tree falls if no ear hears it, Americans curry a convenient ...

One reason the terms here are confusing is that when progressives use the phrase “the working class,” they’re often (though not ...

their lives. And so to better understand the white working class, readers in the elite will need to understand not only the paro ...