Paige McLoughlin’s Reviews > Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class > Status Update

Things get nasty, and politics take a hard right turn.

After the early seventies, the economy darkened with stagflation, and you can see politicians throwing labor under the bus.

Regionalism and George Wallace and the early development of the culture wars as a wedge to further divide the working class

Nixon and the hardhats and fissures in the New Deal coalition between labor and the antiwar New Left.

Labor struggles and National politics of the early 1970s. Lots of racial animus was used as a wedge to divide the working class and funnel people to Nixon.