White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
By (Author) Joan C. Williams
Foreword by Mark Cuban
Harvard Business Review Press
Harvard Business Review Press
1st December 2019
Revised edition
United States
General
Non Fiction
Politics and government
305.5620973
Paperback
208
Width 139mm, Height 209mm
An enlightening and vivid portrait of the stunning successes of populist movements, and what we need to know about how this transformative shift in politics affects our lives. Helps the reader understand this crucial demographic. Sheds light on the 2016 U.S. election. Helps the reader understand larger global trends around white working class anger. Makes a powerful argument about the "managerial elite"--and how they have neglected a subset of the United States population. Audience: The managerial elite, those interested in politics, those concerned about the Red/Blue divide in the United States, fans of Joan.
Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law and Hastings Foundation Chair at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Williamss work includes What Works for Women at Work, coauthored with Rachel Dempsey (New York University Press, 2014); Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000); and such widely read reports as The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict, coauthored with Heather Boushey. Williams is frequently featured as an expert on social class. For more information, visit JoanCWilliams.com.