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Interesting article on white working class fears of falling into poverty.
Many points made in the article including differences in attitudes regarding jobs between blue collar and professional workers.
"Valuing hard work means having the rigid self-discipline to do a menial job you hate for 40 years, and reining yourself in so you don’t “have an attitude” (i.e., so that you can submit to authority). Hard work for elites is associated with self-actualization; “disruption” means founding a successful start-up. Disruption, in working class jobs, just gets you fired."
So: self control vs self expression.
Respecting authority vs challenging authority.
Interesting comparison.
The article also points out job openings are moving toward services (for example health care aides) often associated with women's work which meets resistance from men.
"Talk about insensitivity,” Joan Williams wrote about those advising men with high-school educations to take pink-collar jobs:
Elite men, you will notice, are not flooding into traditionally feminine work. To recommend that for white working class men just fuels class anger."