{"product_id":"the-dispossessed-the-working-classes-and-their-instinct-for-survival-paperback-softback-9781509568468","title":"The Dispossessed; The Working Classes and Their Instinct For Survival (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509568468","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Working Classes and Their Instinct For Survival\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristophe Guilluy (Author), Andrew Brown (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509568468, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e140 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm, 0.204 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The dissident geographer Christophe Guilluy was the very first writer to describe the front lines of the class war globalization unleashed. He did it before Trump, before Brexit, before any university intellectual even recognized there was a conflict - and his account remains the best. \u003ci\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a working class bamboozled out of the civilization it helped build.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Caldwell, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A bracing polemic about the gap between the political class narrative and the reality of ordinary lives. Christophe Guilluy is the scourge of progressive, metropolitan hypocrisy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Goodhart, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"a persuasive analysis of what he believes has gone wrong in France and why\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Cowley, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries. They are not led by any party, union or leader, but by ordinary people. Their deep roots are existential rather than material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese protests are not driven by class consciousness or ideology but by the sense that people have been abandoned, stripped of their rights and shunted out to the peripheries of social and economic life. This is the movement of the dispossessed – of a mass of ordinary people who have gained a will of their own and are no longer content to comply with the directives of elites who want to tell them how to live and behave. The high-profile political events of recent years – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of right-wing parties – are merely surface tremors of a much deeper tectonic shift caused by the slow displacement of a forgotten continent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book Christophe Guilluy uncovers this forgotten continent of the dispossessed and shows how ordinary people are rising up and responding to their programmed disappearance by forging an alternative to a doomed model.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: The sea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Access to the sea\u003cbr\u003eBack to square one\u003cbr\u003eThe 'unbowed' bourgeoisie and the sense of heritage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The forbidden city\u003cbr\u003eUrban cloning\u003cbr\u003eThe cemetery of the political left\u003cbr\u003eThe forbidden city\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The social imprint\u003cbr\u003eEcologically responsible, socially irresponsible\u003cbr\u003eThe peril of social distancing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. The fog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Cinema\u003cbr\u003eFrom narrative to cinema\u003cbr\u003eTheir cinema\u003cbr\u003eThe transclass, an Oscar-worthy role\u003cbr\u003eThe realm of whiners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. 'There is no majority'\u003cbr\u003eThe language that renders people invisible\u003cbr\u003eThe parent company is Netflix\u003cbr\u003eThe utopia of a new people\u003cbr\u003eComing out of one's reserve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Apocalypse Now\u003cbr\u003eAct I: Enter the Prince of Darkness\u003cbr\u003eAct II: The announcement of dark times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3. The horizon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The radical nature of ordinary life\u003cbr\u003eThe survival instinct\u003cbr\u003eThe electoral hard discount and abstention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Not against but elsewhere\u003cbr\u003eA dialogue of the deaf\u003cbr\u003eAnd what about a summit conference on living conditions?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Return to the centre\u003cbr\u003eThe Idiot\u003cbr\u003eThe West doesn't need anyone else's help to decline\u003cbr\u003eIt's now okay to be pragmatic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52458454450456,"sku":"9781509568468","price":14.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509568468.jpg?v=1785373418","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-dispossessed-the-working-classes-and-their-instinct-for-survival-paperback-softback-9781509568468","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}