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'I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class.'-- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save AmericaAn Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite—journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as having'something approaching rock star status'by the New York Times, explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white working class is misguided, rooted in class cluelessness.Williams explains that many people have conflated'working class'with'poor'--but the working class is, in fact, the elusive, purportedly disappearing middle class. They often resent the poor and the professionals alike. But they don't resent the truly rich, nor are they particularly bothered by income inequality. Their dream is not to join the upper middle class, with its different culture, but to stay true to their own values in their own communities--just with more money. While white working-class motiv

Who reads White Working Class : Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America?

Author

Joan C. Williams

Publisher

Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781633693784

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Business

Rating

3.92 / 5 (314 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14