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Title We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America / Jennifer M. Silva
Imprint New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Descript xi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Content Introduction: The puzzle of working-class politics -- Fracturing and revival -- Forgotten men -- The coal miner's granddaughter -- In search of redemption -- Something we never had -- Democracy denied -- Conclusion: Breathing life into a dead community
Note Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the erosion of the American Dream is lived and felt
Subject 2000-2099
Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Working class -- United States -- Attitudes
Working class -- Political activity -- United States
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects.
Presidents -- Election.
Social conditions.
Working class -- Attitudes.
Working class -- Political activity.
Working class -- Social conditions.
United States -- Social conditions
United States
Arbetarklassen
Sociala förhållanden
Presidenter
Politik
Politiska processen
Förenta staterna
USA
Classmark 324.092/6230973
305.5/620973
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ISBN/ISSN 9780190888046 hardcover alkaline paper
0190888040 hardcover alkaline paper
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