Joel Budd

Underdogs

The Truth About Britain's White Working Class

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Produktbeschreibung

'Essential reading' - The Daily Telegraph 'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian 'Packed with revealing content' - Independent Underdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class. And it might just change how you see Britain. Brexit helped to turn the white working class into a social and political force, but 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 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 shows that white working- class people are not just grumbling about the transformation of Britain. Instead, with warmth and determination, they are pushing the country forward.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm
• ISBN-13: 9781035015160
• ISBN-10: 1035015161
• Artikelnr.: 74436303

Autorenporträt

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.