Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class, and Political Response

by Kay Lehman Schlozman and Sidney Verba

Book Overview

It is commonplace in contemporary American politics for those who experience economic strain to join together and ask the government for help. The unemployed, by and large, have not done so. In their study, Kay Lehman Schlozman and Sidney Verba look closely at the unemployed and ask why not.

Using the results of a large-scale survey supplemented by intensive interviews, the authors consider the political attitudes and behavior of the unemployed:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674454421
• ISBN13: 9780674454422
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 9.1"