{"product_id":"underdogs-the-truth-about-britains-white-working-class","title":"Underdogs: The Truth About Britain's White Working Class","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnderdogs is a compelling, myth-busting account of white working-class Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Few books bring so much fresh thinking to tired arguments' - Robert Ford, author of Brexitland\u003cbr\u003e________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo large group of people in Britain is as badly misunderstood as the white working class. Its members have been caricatured as grumpy and backward-looking, as incorrigibly xenophobic, even racist – a tired and simplistic narrative perpetuated by commentators and the media. The truth is entirely different.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years ago, almost nobody talked about the white working class: in the House of Commons and the House of Lords the term had been used just three times in the previous two decades. Brexit helped to turn the group into a towering social and political force. But, in the aftermath, one-third of the population has been reduced to a cartoon. A shrewder analysis is badly needed. Underdogs provides it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVeteran Economist journalist Joel Budd has spent years travelling around Britain, from Teesside to the Isle of Wight, south Wales to Lincolnshire. In Underdogs he offers a sharp corrective to the familiar stereotype of the white working class. It describes a hugely diverse group of people that is driving social and cultural change, not just grumbling about it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40956576858176,"sku":"9781035015122","price":42.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/0876\/8576\/files\/9781035015122.jpg?v=1775091089","url":"https:\/\/thepageandprose.co.nz\/products\/underdogs-the-truth-about-britains-white-working-class","provider":"The Page and Prose Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}