Brexit and the working class on Teesside: Moving beyond reductionism.

TELFORD, Luke and Wistow, Jonathan (2019) Brexit and the working class on Teesside: Moving beyond reductionism. Capital & Class. pp. 1-20. ISSN 2041-0980

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Too often members of the working class who voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum have been framed as uneducated and unaware of their own economic interests. This paper, based on 26 in-depth face-to-face interviews and a further telephone interview on Teesside in the North East of England, offers an alternative perspective that is more nuanced and less reductionist. The paper critiques some of the commonly heard tropes regarding the rationale for voting leave, it then exposes how leave voters rooted their decision in a localized experience of neoliberalism’s slow-motion social dislocation linked to the deindustrialisation of the area and the failure of political parties, particularly the Labour Party, to speak for regional or working-class interests.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Brexit, nationalism, neo-liberalism, political economy, working class
Faculty:	School of Law, Policing and Forensics > Criminal Justice and Forensic Science
Depositing User:	Luke TELFORD
Date Deposited:	10 Aug 2020 14:46
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2023 13:59
URI:	https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/6453

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