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Underdogs: The Truth About Britain's White Working Class - Hardcover

Budd, Joel

 
9781035015122: Underdogs: The Truth About Britain's White Working Class
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1035015129 ISBN 13: 9781035015122
Verlag: Picador, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A Financial Times Summer Read 2025
A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

'Essential reading' - Telegraph
'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian
'A calm, sensitive, soothingly sociological book' - The Sunday Times
'Will change how you see Britain' - Robert Ford, author of Brexitland
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Underdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class. And it might just change how you see Britain.

While Brexit helped to turn the white working class into a social and political force, in its aftermath one-third of the population has been reduced to a caricature. Portrayed as angry and hostile to change, as xenophobic, even racist, it’s a tired narrative favoured by both politicians and the press.

The truth is far more compelling.

In Underdogs, Economist journalist Joel Budd takes us across the UK, from the shores of Teesside to the Isle of Wight, from the Valleys of South Wales to the fields of Lincolnshire, talking with a diverse group of people about their jobs, their families and neighbourhoods, their struggles and hopes.

Offering an eye-opening corrective to the familiar stereotype, Budd discovers the white working class are not just grumbling about the transformation of Britain. With warmth and determination, they are pushing the country forward.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joel Budd has written for the Economist magazine since 2003. He has covered topics as wide-ranging as crime, California, international development and demography, as well as writing many articles and leaders about Britain. Before joining the Economist he studied and taught European history at New York University. He is a photographer, a baritone singer and an enthusiastic hiker, who is sadly not as young as he was. Underdogs is his first book.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1035015129
ISBN 13 
9781035015122
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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