We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America

by Jennifer M. Silva

Book Overview

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own -- the promise at the heart of the American Dream -- is withering away. While onlookers assume those suffering in marginalized working-class communities will instinctively rise up, the 2016 election threw into sharp relief how little we know about how the working-class translate their grievances into politics.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190888040
• ISBN13: 9780190888046
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"