Donald Trump's populist appeals are all the more remarkable given that the modern Republican Party has been the largest beneficiary of this collapsing of class interests.
Never mind wage stagnation and all that, the real problem is the collapse of working-class family values, which is somehow the fault of liberals.
But also I think there are parts you can see most clearly through a red conservative lens, and that's the collapse of working-class family.
* My films on the fiscal stimulus in Indiana, and on the collapse of middle class lifestyles in the American south, will be on 12,13 October on Newsnight and later that week on BBC World News America.
We show that small succinct model theorems depend on the collapse of complexity classes, e.g., of PSPACE and EXPTIME for CTL.
So if technology isn't to blame for inequality, then what is? Elite-led globalization, the transformation of the tax code, the growth of the financial sector, and, above all, the collapse of working-class power since the 1970s.
But activists agree the biggest challenge may be to persuade ordinary people that their heritage is worth preserving – particularly when the frequent collapse of working-class tenements seems a much more pressing problem.
If anything, Hall's play about the Ashington Colliery workers who picked up their paintbrushes at a WEA class and began to paint what they saw around them feels more urgent now than it did four years ago, charting as it does not just the collapse of working-class politics but also looking forward to the collapse in access to the arts.
This was accompanied by severe social stresses and the greater collapse of the middle classes into lower classes of the census and the proletarii.
But the story of Port Clinton over the last half-century — like the history of America over these decades — is not simply about the collapse of the working class but also about the birth of a new upper class.
