The long read: the working class hasn’t gone away by Ron Johnston

Ron Johnston reviews three recent books that, in very different ways, explore the changing nature and politics of the working class in post-industrial societies. The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class. Geoffrey Evans and James Tilley. Oxford University Press. 2017. The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality. Justin Gest. Oxford University Press. 2016. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. Guy Standing. Bloomsbury Academic. 2016.