Beschrijving

We’re Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork and over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain and politics.

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one’s children a better life than one’s own-the promise at the heart of the American Dream-is withering away. In turn, \