New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality

By Justin Gest

Book Overview

It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown among this group have even inspired the creation of new right-wing parties and resulted in a remarkable level of support for fringe political candidates, most notably Donald Trump.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190632550
• ISBN13: 9780190632557
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"