These programs provide the model for the future of working-class jobs that yield a solid
middle-class standard of living. But instead of nurturing a new industrial policy, too often
what the white working class hears is the prescription that working-class men should take
the kinds of low-wage jobs working-class women hold. That’s not the right message, as I
explain in the next chapter.
- Don’t They Understand That Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back?