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Rust Belt Union BluesBook

by Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol

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Jared Abbott
Jared Abbott is the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, which has done a lot of research and polling on working-class voters.
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So, one is, um, very similar to the point I was just making, this book by the Scotch Pole and and Laney Newman called Rust Belt Union Blues, which talks about the hollowing out of associational life and in the rust belt and the ways that's affected um, you know, the move to the right in those areas.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jared-abbott.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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