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The ‘Natural History’ of the Declining White Working Class in America
By Prof. James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
Global Research
This pathbreaking analysis, which is currently the object of controversy and debate, was first published by Global Research in July 2016
The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of ‘premature deaths’ – a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic. There have been quiet studies and reports peripherally describing this trend – but their conclusions have not yet entered the national consciousness for reasons we will try to explore in this essay. Indeed this is the first time in the country’s ‘peacetime’ history that its traditional core productive sector has...