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"Bleak and depressing as that prospect is, many Democrats, liberals and progressives have come to accept it. They have decided they must either compromise their ideals or ignore the workingman and seek a coalition of women, youth, the alienated. They sidestep the blue-collar issues and look elsewhere for a constituency. These opinions are widely held. The central thesis of this book is that all of them are basically and profoundly wrong. The hope for a progressive majority in America need not be forgotten, the basic progressive principles and ideals do not have to be jettisoned, and more widely disparate groups with few common interests need not be proposed as solutions to the current political dilemma. All such approaches are tactics born of desperation rather than a serious understanding of the real problems, legitimate discontents, and, in significant measure, decent democratic instincts of American workers. They are conclusions reached on the basis of a common wisdom about workers and working-class life that is simply without foundation. Consider the basic social and economic conditions of blue-collar workers. Although the euphoric image of the “affluent worker” of the ’50s has

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Author

Andrew Levison

Publisher

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.

Published

1974

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Sociology, Politics